gizmotastic

I have found the same thing and it seems I am not the only one.

I’m of two minds on this.

The first is you have admire Joost for finding one more way to promote himself and his services. That’s the kind of thinking that makes people wealthy. I check the Yoast blog out times a week without being reminded by an advisory panel, so the Yoast promo is singing to the choir. Joost has great information and if you haven’t checked it out you might want to every once in a while.

On the other hand the practice could be used by others for nefarious purposes. Think about all those ‘helpful‘ toolbars that out there rewriting affiliate cookies, adding pop-ups and click-bots. It would wise of WordPress to monitor how and by who the dashboard used. When Microsoft allowed developers to throw plug-ins into Outlook it turned one of their best programs (in my opinion)into spam infested billboard.

If you can narrow down the plugin that is needing the extra memory you can add this line:

ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ’16M’);

to the php file for the plugin. If at first it doesn’t work, increase it by 8M until you no longer recieve the error message.

The advantage of this method is that you have more control and set this value just where you know it is really needed. Also it can be done without having access to the system php.ini, and will become active immediately.

I’ve been looking for the same “yb” plug-in myself. I’ve had not luck.

I’m considering hacking around with PHPlinkdirectory (PHPld). Does anyone know if this has been attempted yet?