Picturesurf Blog Gallery – “… is a free blog plugin that allows you to add SEO-friendly image galleries to your blog post in seconds.”
I noticed this being used on CrunchGear’s Leica D-LUX 4 review.
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Search & Replace Wordpress Plugin - Scary, But Works
I had the problem of numerous Amazon widgets on this site having a different link color (#0000FF) than the one used for the theme (#3478E3).
Not wanting to go through each post and modifying the widget link color codes by hand, I Googled for Find / Search and Replace solutions designed specifically for Wordpress.
Two plugins in particular seemed promising:
- Search Regex Plugin at Urban Giraffe.
- Frank Bültge’s Search & Replace – see the plugin reference at Wordpress.org, and on the author’s blog (original, in German, Google’s English translation).
The Search Regex plugin looked promising, with a user-friendly interface that shows you a preview of what will be replaced, and allows you to go ahead and perform the replacement, or edit the results in-place.
Unfortunately, a comment by John Godley indicated that the plugin didn’t support Wordpress 2.8 at the time.
I had no choice but to give the second plugin, Search & Replace, a try. It has an appropriate warning:
This plugin uses an standard SQL query so it modifies your database directly!
Attention: You cannot undo any changes made by this plugin. It is therefore advisable to backup your database before running this plugin. No legal claims to the author of this plugin! Aktivate the plugin only, if you want to use it!Text search is case sensitive and has no pattern matching capabilites. This replace function matchs raw text so it can be used to replace HTML tags too.
The warning text links to a tutorial written by the author himself on using PHPMyAdmin to back the database up (Google’s English translation), but I just used the WordPress Database Backup plugin to perform the task instead.
Next, I went to Settings > Search & Replace in the Wordpress admin panel to fill out the relevant parameters. I checked the Content box, entered 0000FF in the Replace box, and 3478E3 in the with box. When I clicked on the Go button, there find & replace launched with no further prompting or warning.
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I was relieved that the search & replace ran successfully, and here’s what the final completion message looked like.
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Fatal error after upgrading to Wordpress 2.5
After upgrading DavidChinPhoto.com to Wordpress 2.5, everything seemed fine initially.
But when I tried going into the Dashboard / Site Admin, I got this error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_sidebar() in /home/ ... /wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 12
Searching Google for “Call to undefined function register_sidebar()” turned up this discussion.
The solution that was proposed included disabling the Disable WordPress Widgets plugin, and that was directly applicable to my site as it was running on a 3-column variation of the K2 theme.
I took the following steps.
Step 1 – Edit an existing post
I was wondering how to get to the plugins page since I wasn’t able to call up Site Admin. By a stroke of luck, I thought of trying to edit an existing post, and it worked. I was then able to click on the Plugins link.
Step 2 – Deactivate the Disable Wordpress Widgets plugin
This a pretty straightforward step. Just scroll down the page until you see the Disable Wordpress Widgets plugin, then click on the Deactivate link.
Step 3 – Navigate to the Dashboard
Test that everything went well by clicking on the Dashboard link at the upper left-hand corner. You should be able to see the brand-new Wordpress 2.5 Dashboard now.
After this experience, I think I’ll just stick to the Default Wordpress Theme and modify the design and functionality to suit my needs.
