WildBil2Me

Thanks MichaelH!

I’m working with the host now to figure it out and I’ll update if any changes can be made – otherwise I’ll be heading to that link.

Thanks again.

That “MySQL server has gone away” looks a lot like an error message that is related to my hosting provider. At this point I have almost no plugins installed but even running an un-customized version of the default theme I’m still hitting this wall.

I’m using GoDaddy and they appear to suddenly be a poor choice for WordPress users. Can anyone suggest a better choice (in case I need to find a new host…)

those just started showing up …

I talked to my hosting company and they’re telling me nothing is wrong with the Database server and that I need to “Optimize my Connections…”

Any thoughts?

With the plugin weighing in at over 5k lines of code across about 6 php files I have no way of guaranteeing that just searching for preg_replace will really do it. ??

I knew that .htaccess would be a much quicker way of doing it I just was having trouble getting the syntax down. The solution I finally found was close to the one your suggested but a bit simpler. Here’s what I went with:

Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)\+(.*)$ https://example.com/tag/$1-$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)_(.*)$ https://example.com/tag/$1-$2 [R=301,L]

I only needed one RewriteRule because none of my tags are longer than two words. Once I got it figured out I added the last line to make everything more SEO friendly.

In its current form the code above replaces both ‘+’ and ‘_’ with ‘-‘ making things pretty simple.

Thanks for jumping in to help whooami, I appreciate it! ??

I was thinking about that – but the thing is I’d need to replace it every single time I installed an updated version of that new plugin.

Otto you never cease to amaze me, thanks!!

Thanks for the feedback:

• On Too Many Ads: when I was running it on WAMP it seemed like the ads were ok but I agree they’re a bit too heavily saturated at the top – especially for a personal blog. I’ll definitey cut them back.
• On Loading Slow: Yeah, I dunno what that’s all about. Early yesterday morning (long before I swapped to the new theme) everything started slowing down. While AdSense and Analytics are registering hits but StatCounter has totally stopped doing anything. I may have to contact my provider to find out what the deal is.
• On Content: Thanks for the reminder – I’ve been so busy coding I’ve fallen behind on quality posts. That’ll be changing asap. ??

Thanks for your input folks.

hey thanks for the heads up… what’s funny is that my installation didn’t start doing it until after I updated to to 2.1.

If I go back to any older posts they are formatted the way I’d expect.

Howdy Tim,

I’m the author of the diggIntegrator plugin and only just spotted your post. I thought I’d jump in and see if I could provide some help.

The way diggIntegrator works is that it waits to catch incoming traffic from a digg.com article URL. When I first got started the plugin was catching a lot of false positives caused by category pages, upcoming article pages and even profiles. Instead of showing an icon you’d get an “ERROR 404” message.

The only way I prevent this was to drastically restrict which pages would trigger the plugin and record the proper URL in the system.

Right now, you can forcibly trigger the plugin by going to the actual story’s URL on digg and then clicking through to your site. If that doesn’t work you can also manually enter the correct URL in the “DiggURL” section of the “Custom Fields” dialogue at the bottom of the post page. If you still run into trouble with this drop me a line and I’ll see if there’s something more that can be done.

While a lot of people have been downloading and using the program relatively few have reported issues to me. If you, or anyone else, encounter any problems I’d be glad to look into them.

Thanks,

bill

Thanks Patrick, that worked like a charm. I upgraded to 2.0.1 and everything is working fine now!

Something about the WordPress 2.0.6 upgrade must have set it off because I hadn’t had the problem before that.

-wb

Thanks Otto42, I knew that WordPress’ engine was stripping the tags and had assumed it was a security thing. I’ll check out your plugin and check back.

It’s not an issue of using the Rich Text Editor. Both in and out of the WYSIWYG editor JavaScript tags will be stripped – I also don’t use the WYSIWYG and never have.

I’ll try with CDATA tags tonight but to be honest I’m not very familiar with them or their usage.

Any other suggestions?

I use NotePad++ for all my coding. It marks code up nicely as well as keeps things neat. There are numerous plugin options, collapsible code blocks, and support for many many many languages.

It’s OpenSource and you can choose to run it off a USB stick. Just Google NotePad++

Sorry for the delay in responding but it seems that HandySolo was spot on. Thanks for the tip.

Out of curioustity – is there any way to address this?

You may be able to do this without contacting them directly. I use GoDaddy and WordPress and had a similar problem on one of my blogs – which I’d accidentally set up as ASP.

You want to click on the “Hosting & Servers” button on the green bar and then “My Hosting Account.”

Click on the hosting account you’re using for WordPress and then in the sidebar look for “Upgrade/Downgrade Hosting Account.”

Click that link and you’ll see a list of possible account settings. You can use the radio buttons there to swap between hosting plans – just select the PHP version of your current hosting plan. This change may take some time (maybe even a day) but it should get you going.

As I said, I’ve done this at least once already and it worked like a charm.