Problems uploading images in WP 2.7

I have been trying to upload images to a site which is on Wordpress 2.7 using the Arthemia theme. The problem I was having using the media uploader was that after I uploaded the image, it went to the gallery. I could see that the file had uploaded to the uploads folder. The only problem was that when I went to insert it into the post,the screen went blank and nothing happened.

This was obviously a common problem and there are numerous posts about this on the net and support forum. One of the issues might be incompatible plugins which interfere with the adding images process. These have been identified as:

NextGen Gallery
Bad behaviour
WP-Amazon
CommentLuv

There are probably more but these are teh most common ones so far.

Unfortunately, even after disabling all the plugins, it did not help . I could still not upload any images.

The next thing to try was to make the htaccess changes as suggested by this post.

I also tried the suggestions on here Nothing worked.

In the end, I decided that it was something to do with the theme and the version of wordpress. I was using 2.7. Am now upgrading to 2.8 and switching to a theme where it is tried and tested with lots of support. Sometimes you just can’t fight the code, make your own life easier and go with the simplest option.

How to increase the items in Edit Post Page in WP2.7

I was struggling to bulk edit my posts to add tags and reassign categories with each search only showing a maximum of 15 items. It was taking me ages to scroll through multiple pages to update my posts. There had to be a simple solution to change this setting in Wordpress 2.7. It took a lot of searching to find the hack to fix this, but here it is:

1. Open the file manager in your Hosting control panel.
2. Find the this file wp-admin/includes/post.php
3. You need to find this code

wp(”post_type=post&what_to_show=posts$post_status_q&posts_per_page=15&order=$order&orderby=$orderby”);

Its about the 805th line in wordpress 2.7, line number might be different in different versions, so better find (CTRL+F) the line of code above in wp-admin/includes/post.php

Replace 15 in posts_per_page=15 by some higher number you like, I made it 50.

4. Save the file and exit. Voila, much less work to bulk edit now.

The good and bad of Wordpress 2.7

I have been working on a new site on WP 2.7 and there are some gripes. The way the have laid out the new page takes a while to get used to. The side bar navigation is a bit better but there is a lot of scrolling and does take time to find what you need.

I do like the new quick edit function under Manage Posts. This does make it easier to edit categories and tags.

New sticky post feature is a welcome addition as the old WP-Sticky plugin never worked for me and the manual tweak of changing post dates and times was way to fiddly to be worth it.

One big gripe is the lost of the edit post slug function which used to be under the Post Title. This has since disappeared, from my version at least. I can’t find it anywhere which is truly annoying.

The Polldaddy addition is a nice touch which simplifies adding polls to your blog but takes a bit of tweaking and set up.

I did find a great post identifying some of the new features here in more detail.

Am still exploring and am still trying to get over the loss of usage of some of my favorite plugins, making blogging a great deal more hassle. If you have any great finds or tips on WP2.7, please share.

Wordpress 2.7 and Revolution Two Wordpress themes

I just went to load up a new blog via Fantastico and noticed that it is now at Version 2.7. This means that the theme I was intending to use was not going to be totally compatible. So my quick 5 min job of setting up a new blog now meant an hour or so looking around for a Wordpress 2.7 compatible theme.

To my delight, I found that Revolution themes which are by far the most professional Premium Wordpress themes around has now gone open source and they have all been updated to be compatible with Wordpress 2.7. What a find. Thanks Brian Gardner.

I downloaded the Revolution Lifestyle Theme to play with and was warned before hand that there was a lot of coding required to bring the theme up to speed. After just randomly investigating the options and code, I found that most of it was very obvious and quite easy to tweak.

You do need to use some simple graphic programs to tweak images to make 70×70 thumbnails, the header image, etc. But they provide a blank header image file which you then write over with text in MS Paint. That was the quickest way I thought of doing it. If you have GIMP, you could use that too but a bit overkill.

I got stuck when all the images in the Featured post was the same, when the demo site showed lots of different images. I then found this extremely useful blog post that detailed all the steps in tweaking this theme. Alternatively you can sign up for support at the RevolutionTwo site to get access to the forums for support on all their themes.

Now that I have done one, I am going to try out a few of their other themes for other sites. You can check out their open source wordpress themes here.

Click here to visit Revolution Theme website!