Ian

the tech support people are very unhelpful, they just keep telling me that wordpress is terrible at memory usage. Since it’s such a common platform, I’m not really accepting that. One site has only two plugins, both common (wp stats, askimet) and STILL hits 500 errors on loading the image upload script. I feel like there is something very wrong there.

I’ve been having the same problems with increased frequency. It’s pretty ridiculous – I’ve been running wordpress on dreamhost for years, same set up, very little content, only about 20-50 unique visitors a day and I’m getting 500 errors all the time just while trying to make new posts or edit tags, etc. Even deleting a spare theme in the backend! Or just visiting my stats page.

Have any of you moved? Any good alternatives? I’m starting to feel they are just not the solution.

I was trying to use this and it didn’t seem to work for me. Maybe it relies upon the post content being in a certain div or something? How does it apply the filter?

Austin, many people have feeds or other promotional items bundled with their plugins, but it’s a pretty common courtesy to include an off switch.

I’m tempted to uninstall it myself, but I think I may just hunt through your code and turn off the offending widget, instead of trying to add even more code to counter act it (which seems to be what you’re suggesting.)

You’ve written a relatively stable and enjoyable plugin, it would be a shame if more users felt they had to drop it simply because it does something not included in the description (IE, adding advertising for your sites to the front of the backend for ALL users.)

In any case, until you decide to make it more user friendly, I’m going to have to keep my rating relatively low. In the long run, I think you’ll find having a more popular plugin will be better for promoting you as a developer than having some spam-like feed links forced through the dashboard.

Small World ??

Awesome, thanks so much. That was the bit I was totally missing. For some reason thought that your content type was a wordpress standard term that I wasn’t familiar with.

mike, is there a way to tweak that code so it only adds the category if it is a certain post type? I’ve got a post type “Sketchbook” that I want to always be in the “sketchbook” category.

is that slow or fast? I can’t tell with the metaphor, haha.

Sorry that code didn’t work for you, it’s pasted directly from my functions – don’t know where I originally found it.

how do you update the database manually?

you can disable it sitewide by putting this small code in your functions.php

/* Disable the Admin Bar. */
add_filter( ‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );

I’m having exactly the same problem. I think that it worked fine up until 3.1, this is the first time I’m using it past the upgrade.

Thanks, that was just what I was searching for. It worked in 3.1 for me. With tags also, just using “post_tag” as the category name.

The new version of Quick Cache seems to be doing a pretty good job, out performing W3 total cache, though it doesn’t have as much functionality.

I got WP minify running as well, though I had to disable it on my forum since it messed with the styling somehow.

cool. I’m already save-for-webing any image, but I’ll look into smush.

Do you know the name of your database plugin? I’ve got WP-DBManager

I also use it to do daily backups.

great, good to hear! Thanks!