Remind you of something? Just a simple statement that I am a little bit daring, and am running WordPress
Feeling rare and daring, again
WordCamp comes to Los Angeles
Well, after month of planning, WordCampLA is finally days away. This WordCamp idea was born after I attended WordCamp in Las Vegas.
But that was nine months ago. It’s now September, Labor Day has passed and that means the the summer has come to an end. So anyone who lives in the Los Angeles or greater surrounding areas and is a WordPress fan should come hang for the last “tech event of the summer”! WordCampLA, at this moment has around 60 tickets left, which can be purchased at Eventbrite or directly from the WordCampLA site.
I’ve got to say without the help of a few people, and two great sponsors, this event might not have happened, so thank you:
- Jeana Arter
- Darin Hardy & Alyssa Hastings @ InMotion Hosting
- Michael Brodsky @ Loyola Marymount University
But of course, I want to thank all the sponsors of the upcoming event, so visit the sponsor page to see who else is helping to make the first WordCampLA a successful event.
Annoyance: WordPress fatal error on image.php
I find my self uploading less and less gallery style images to my photo weblog of the “night before” and my little vacation trips because I keep running into this:
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 34340864) (tried to allocate 9088 bytes) in /thefrosty/wp-admin/includes/image.php on line 147
See photo:
WordPress Gallery upload error message, come on!
So I am at a stand still and don’t know what do do. I’m real sick of having to resize my original photos down to a “friendly” workable size just to upload them. Plus I am using 1and1 as my host, which has a cap on my php.ini file for max MB upload.
I’ve tried Snag it to resize, and it works great and fast, but I’ve found it strips the EXIF data from the photo, and that sucks! And Photoshop just takes to long.
I am really, really hoping that WordPress 2.9 takes care of this issue, or I may have to [insert something here].
My Custom Login plugin for WordPress
Since WordPress 2.5, I’ve been using a custom login plugin for myself and my clients. It changed the default WordPress login screen.
Well after some careful thought I finally decided to release my plugin to the community. While the version at the WordPress repository starts at 0.3, my initial release was 0.1 respectively.
In the new version, I’ve updated it to work with ( at least ) WordPress version 2.9. I also added an admin panel for better control with the CSS and background image/logo.
Visit Custom Login at the WordPress repository.
An Eventbrite Plugin for WordPress
Over the past few weeks, I was trying to devise a way to show the attendee’s from an Eventbrite event. Eventbrite allows you to view your attendees in RSS form.
I decided to create a plugin for WordPress to make things a bit easier, but after a few days of working on it, someone else in the WordPress community created a plugin that was 99% similar to the one I was working on, DARN!
Then I decided to rework the plugin, and make it more specific for this one purpose. Eventbrite Attendees Shortcode does exactly what it says, use a shortcode with your attendee feed to print the list on any page or post within WordPress.
Shortcode example:
[eventbrite-attendees feed="http://www.eventbrite.com/rss/event_list_attendees/384870157" /]
So download the plugin from the WordPress repository, or leave feedback at the WPCult page.
Running with scissors, is rare
The title isn’t entirely true, just a simple statement that I am a little bit daring, and am running WordPress’ version 2.9-rare. Really, check out my source code.