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Andrew – for me it was the core.

My entire WordPress site updated from 3.8.0 to 3.8.1 while I was sleeping. I didn’t get the chance to do a backup. What if something went wrong?

I use WordPress professionally and I’m outraged that the system is now doing its updates for me without my knowledge or permission. I don’t know how I can stand behind the system and say I support it if I can’t predict what it’s going to do! I really hope when I get to work today that the company intranet still works.

That’s an error on your MySQL server – I overcame this problem when importing a large database by changing a line in php.ini from memory_limit=128M to memory_limit=256M.

I recommend changing it back when you’re finished with the plugin/upload/whatever.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4859833/how-to-increase-memory-size-for-phpmyadmin and https://forum.directadmin.com/showthread.php?t=25115

Excellent.

Strangely, after posting my comment about featured images still working, the feature is now missing from my setup.

I haven’t updated WordPress or the theme, since I already have the latest version of both. Currently investigating what is going on. Is there standard code or a documentation page detailing how to add featured images (properly)?

If so I’ll modify my theme ??

Version 2.03 is available on the developer’s website as a .zip, if you’re interested. Still only officially supports WP up to 3.3, I believe, but I’m using featured images on my theme. Even if the article itself doesn’t have a picture, the featured image I choose from within the article shows up on my custom layout on the front page, so I know it’s working.

I use WP 3.5.1 currently.

Download the theme: https://digitalnature.ro/projects/arclite/

’nuff said.

For some reason now when I visit my site on my cell phone with the mobile theme enabled, everything is working fine now.

There haven’t been any updates and I haven’t changed any code (yet), so I have no idea why, but apparently it is possible that this plugin could work just fine with mobile themes. :_)

On the settings, if you look at each layout’s individual settings, you can specify the image width & height. I’ve left mine blank for width, and the images crop to square. Also, I selected thumbnail for the image size, which should cause the layout to take whatever thumbnail is associated with that image.

If, for example, you have a 150×150 px image, but the layout is set to be 150×250, that could cause the skewing. Not sure if that is the case for you, but maybe some food for thought!

Thank you, willow & ken. Good to know the text stands out (as of course you want people to read your articles!).

Yeah I want to do more video. It’s that darned full-time job that keeps holding me back. ?? If I keep working maybe I can get enough traffic to generate full-time revenue and then I won’t have that problem!

Thanks for the good advice and suggestions. I’ve not experimented much with ad placement yet, but it might be time to do that soon.

As for the audience, some of them are people I meet at events I go to, and I focus on a lot of local or state things. I also look for things that the local news channels ignores and I think my (target) audience wants to know about.

It would be an awesome full time gig if it ever grows enough, basically it would be freelance journalism. … and a WordPress success story, of course ??

I have the same problem, but I may know part of what is going on.

If you look on my main page, my latest posts in their respective categories appear.

If you look on my mobile main page, it shows the next posts in each category, if there are any.

If the option to “Allow duplicate posts” is enabled, my “mobile” page does not show the latest posts. If I disable this option, the latest posts are displayed.

It looks like the plugin is no longer being developed, so I may play around with the code until I can find a solution, then publish it or something.

Let me know if this helps!

I use the plugin also. Do you have it running on your site right now? If so, please provide a link and I’ll take a look.

It works on my site with Firefox and IE at least. Without seeing yours, maybe another plugin could be conflicting?

My apologies, just meant to add notes to the current topic. My issue has been resolved.

Unfortunately, no. I eventually abandoned ship for another plugin when a different plugin I was using broke after Google changed its API access (started using Captcha authentication).

I liked WP Wunderground, but never found a solution. The one I use now also uses Weather Underground. It is called “Weather and Weather Forecast Widget” or “GoGadget Weather and Weatherforecast Widget.” You have to set up an account with Weather Underground, but they have a free developer API you can use.

A little more work, but it looks good. My test site is using it right now: https://www.areform.org/testpress

I’m having the same problem, except I’m pretty sure I’ve caused my own issues by doing to many things to list here. Bottom line is I know my database is intact because I can access it from the back end, and was able to access my admin panel with the correct info previously.

The same error is what I get when trying to log in for the “first” time. I put it in quotes because now I’m on the n-teenth attempt, but it’s still at the same step. I’ve renamed my plugins folder, manually removed a cache plugin (and associated files), and removed other themes.

The only thing I lack suggested by t-p is uploading all but wp-config. I’ve already re-uploaded the other wp- directories to no avail. Just adding some notes in case anyone else runs into this.