BlogAllAlong

For some time now the sidebar RSS Links were not working, as it was referring to

“http://blogallalong.com/<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>”

 I didn’t know what’s the problem at the time, and why the PHP code was not being executed. I put it on my long todo list and forgot about it until early this morning. You know how sometimes you wake up from bed for no good reason and launch the editor?

I recalled then I have switched to Widgets sidebar a while ago, and as I expected I used the Text Widget for the Subscriptions box. When I should’ve used the added PHP Code Widget Plugin. I already have it used, but didn’t notice this box has PHP code in it during migration.

I’m not sure why this widget isn’t included by default in Wordpress, and as I see it, it’s better to have one default box that handles both Text and PHP code, which is what the PHP Code Widget does. I think I’m gonna stick to it for all text and PHP widgets.

Popularity: 9% [?]

There are always those good & bad plugins, and sometimes rise a plugin, where it must basically be a built-in feature. That one plugin is the famously growing Wordpress Automatic Upgrade Plugin by Techie-Buzz. Every now and then, or once a security hole was found and a patch was released for it, we would need to go through the Wordpress sometimes painful upgrade steps. Even if it was called 5 minutes upgrade, it was still a tedious job to look after, and I like many others have become lazy catching up. So lazy that when I finally wanted to upgrade, it was a huge gap and my upgrade for some reason failed, the blog stopped working. I restored the old version and lived literally by the quote “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!”.

Then I kept hearing about this plugin over and over. I never expected it would work though for my old release, or it would be that easy. Luckily, I just tried it two days back, and not a single problem. Only thing is, one of the old plugins is not supported anymore. What the hell? What used to take long time for download & upload, then sometimes fixing, now takes few minutes.

Thanks a million Techies.

Popularity: 13% [?]