Another WordPress upgrade issue. This time the exact error message is as follows: Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.3.zip. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2357261 bytes) in /home/xxx/public_html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1324 There are a couple ways to fix this issue, with the easiest is to edit wp-settings.php at line 13 [...]
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Are WordPress themes GPL?
July 3, 2009
The world of Open Source software has always interested me in great detail and people charging for themes and various plugins for gpl based content management systems has never bothered me at all. But is it legal to do so? An interesting post has been made on the WordPress blog which doesn’t ask the question [...]
phpOStock WordPress plugin
July 3, 2009

If you dabble in internet marketing and have a Commission Junction account, phpOstock will give your blog the ability to promote products from the incredibly popular online discount store Overstock.com with ease right in your wordpress blog. I have started making a site based around this plugin called Boxed Video which displays some of the [...]
WordPress PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT
June 29, 2009
I got this error in one of my WordPress installs: Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure. In this case it was due to using an installer such as Fantastic or Installatron to initially setup WordPress, a manual install over my current install fixed this. There is Further research here on WordPress.org also. The [...]
4 for 1 WooThemes Special
June 22, 2009
WooThemes are probably one of the biggest premium theme makers available for the WordPress blogging platform with some of the slickest designs around. No need for any coupon or promo code, the guys are offering 4 themes for one to celebrate the launch of WOO2 website redesign. We decided that we’d spoil all of the [...]
WordPress: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction()
February 13, 2009
If you have tried the new auto updating in WordPress 2.7 and have been given this error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in /Yourhome… Deactivate the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin WPAU as it is no longer needed.
Godaddy and Dreamhost Promo Codes for 2009
January 2, 2009
Here are a collection of Godaddy and Dreamhost codes that can be currently used. These are all Case sensitive. Godaddy ZINE1 for 10% off ZINE2 for $5 off any $30+ purchase ZINE25 for $25 off any purchase of $100 ZINE3 for $7.49 .com domains MTECH1 to get 10% off anything MTECH2 to get 20% discount [...]
WordPress – Post to Page?
October 10, 2008
I was searching for some way to convert a WordPress post (a blog entry) to a page (static content) without the need to edit individual database entries: ‘post_status’ column – from ‘publish’ to ‘static’ etc when I came across p2pConverter Wonderful guys these plugin writers! Converts either a static Page into a Post, or a [...]
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July 31, 2008
There is an interesting article on Compass designs which asks the question: Does WordPress have better out of the box SEO than Joomla? Out of the box the results are not apparent, but with a bit of 2 minute tweaking what would happen?



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