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WordPress Memory Issues

Posted on September 27, 2011 at 2:45 pm in
Troubleshoot

Symptom: Your site crashes and displays a message along the lines of Fatal error: Allowed memory size of xxxxxxxx bytes exhausted Cause: You do not have sufficient memory allocated to PHP within your hosting account. There are a number of ways you can get your site up & running again. The method that works for…

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What You Need To Know For eShop

Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:40 pm in
Shopping Cart

eShop – the WordPress eShop ecommerce plugin has fairly extensive documentation but there is a lot you can do before you even install the plugin. Answering and checking off the following question before you start configuring eShop should make the eShop set-up process a little easier for you.

Using $s with Double Quotes in WordPress

Posted on September 20, 2011 at 8:02 pm in
warning

I came across a really worrying issue recently when a site running one of my own themes failed a PCI compliance test. The template file concerned was search.php and the offending code was <?php printf( __(“Sorry – I couldn’t find anything on %1$s%2$s%3$s”, ‘theme_name’), ‘<span>’, $my_searchterm, ‘</span>’);?> From the test results, it seemed that $my_searchterm…

Resize the Header in a Twenty Eleven Child Theme

Posted on September 18, 2011 at 11:52 am in
Scale

In the WordPress Twenty Eleven theme, the header image needs to be 1000px wide and 288px high. But what if you want to use a smaller (or larger) custom header image? The changes needed to use a wider image are fairly complex and beyond the scope of this article. But changing the header height is…

Adding Text to Your Home Page

Posted on September 16, 2011 at 10:13 am in
testimonial

So you want to edit your site’s home page but it doesn’t show up under Pages? Assuming that your site’s front page shows a list of your most recent posts, it is not created in the same way as the other static Pages on your site. It is actually an archive page (which, in WordPress-speak,…

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WordPress Installation and Set Up

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