pnaw10

I know it’s been awhile since anything in this thread, but I wanted to clarify some of the confusion which seemed to arise earlier in the post: the file size of the WordPress upgrade has NOTHING to do with the “30M limit” imposed by 1and1.

The 30M limit is how much memory PHP is allowed to use for running scripts at any given time. Think of PHP scripts being called by your wp-admin, by anyone browsing your site, by plugins that you use and even any calls to WP Stats (if you’re using it).

I am running three different websites on the basic 1and1 account — one included domain and I pay separately for the other two domains. I’m sure that’s not helping much either.

I also ran into a problem with the WP 3.1 upgrade with the biggest of my three sites (the smaller 2 upgraded fine), and wound up doing it manually via FTP since the auto wouldn’t work. Since then, every version after has auto-upgraded without a problem.

But still, on my biggest site, the admin dashboard will usually only load partially — some of the blocks just say “loading…” and I got the “fatal error: out of memory…” error on the last block on the left column. The right column doesn’t even load. And I can’t get any “extended” stats (30+ days) to load either.

I’m about ready to move to another hosting service that offers more than 30M of PHP memory… WordPress and all the bells and whistles I use are definitely “outgrowing” my current 1and1 account.

I know better service will cost more, but I don’t want to see my bill take a significant leap higher — any recommendations on hosting providers?

Well, I just published my first post since installing the Facebook plugin. I wanted to compare the FB plugin’s WP-post to FB-page posting abilities, and it failed miserably. Got a blank screen with 3 or 4 error messages, had to refresh to my main /wp-admin/ page to see anything.

Didn’t bother logging the error messages, though I probably should have shared them here. Got better things to do with my time. Instead, I just deactivated the Facebook plugin and I’m 100% back to using Wordbooker for all WP-FB functions.

Thanks Steve, good to know. I didn’t realize that… I’ve always put off updates until I had time to deal with downloading, unzipping, FTP’ing and such.

Right now I’m still using Wordbooker along with the FB plugin, just to compare and contrast the two. Knowing that Wordbooker now does automatic updates is definitely a game-changer.

For quite awhile, I’ve used the Wordbooker plugin, as it was the first plugin to do many of the things this new Facebook plugin does.

While I admire Steve Atty (the man behind Wordbooker) for his tireless devotion to the plugin, the plugin often runs into trouble whenever Facebook changes things on their own site. And for some reason, “automatic” updating via WordPress isn’t recommended because it can wipe out one’s settings. By contrast, a Facebook plugin made directly BY Facebook seems like it’ll be updated to remain compatible with FB, and it appears it’ll be OK to use automatic updating.

My wish-list for improvements:

Commenting: For my site https://www.cnyradio.com I like to make people register and login before they can post comments via the original WordPress interface. I don’t want people being able to post anonymously with fake addresses. Wordbooker recently added commenting via Facebook. The way it works, I have the WP interface, and then right below it, FB’s interface via Wordbooker.

I had temporarily activated the commenting feature via the Facebook plugin, but it replaced my WP commenting interface. I liked that it added “# comments” links on my front page, but did NOT like that it also completely replaced the original WP commenting interface.

Jetpack recently upgraded to allow people to choose to login using a WordPress.com login, Facebook, or Twitter. But, these options aren’t visible if you only allow “registered” users of your site to comment… and once someone logs in, their comments are posted with their account on the site itself — no option to switch to FB or Twitter login.

I’d like to see something which combines it all — ONE commenting interface where people can login with an account from my own site OR Facebook OR Twitter. And regardless of how they logged in, all the comments should appear together, and as someone else asked, it’d be nice to see the comments posted via Facebook login mirrored to Facebook if the user desires.

Basically, I think there are a lot of people out there who want to include the Facebook commenting interface, but also need to keep the WP interface because each offers unique features, and it would be tough to go with JUST one or the other.

Also, not sure if there’s already a way to do this but I missed it — but WP has a widget to display your site’s latest comments, as long as the comments were posted via WP. Would also like to see a widget that shows the latest FB-posted comments. Better yet, a widget that can show the latest comments posted through either method, so I don’t need to show separate widgets.

Bottom line, I want to let people post comments via FB. But WP is also nice for people who don’t want to post with their real name. They can register with a username that maintains their privacy, but also allows me to delete/ban the user if there’s ever a problem.

We need something that combines the best features and functionalities of both worlds.

I should add, in case anyone else finds this topic via search, I am using the Atahualpa theme.

Bump. Was wondering the same thing, found this thread via a Google search.

On the main stats screen:
https://www._domain_.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats

If you look under “Top Posts & Pages” you are shown how many hits each of the top 10 posts/pages have received, then “Other Posts” are all lumped together as one total.

If you click the headline for one of the listed posts/pages, you are taken to that post/page on your blog.

If you click “Other Posts” you would expect to see a breakdown of what those other posts were and how many hits each received, as you could with the original version of Stats. However, expectations are not met. Clicking “Other Posts” brings you to this page:

https://www._domain_.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&view=postviews&date=YYYY-MM-DD&blog=XXXXXXX

(YYYY=year, MM=month, DD=day and XXXXXX is a unique blog ID number.)

On this page, you get the same exact “top ten” list, and “Other Posts” at the bottom, still with that same grand total of all the hits garnered by all the Other Posts. If you click the link “Other Posts” you generally expect to see WHAT Other Posts got hits, and how many they received. But no, it’s just another page listing the same exact information seen on the first page.

But, if I click on “This Week” from the main stats page, or “7 Days” from the second page mentioned in this post, then I get a breakdown of EVERY post that received hits over the past week. If it can do this for posts in the past week, why not for “Today” and “Yesterday” anymore?

I did notice that clicking on weekly stats uses this URL:

https://www._domain_.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=stats&view=postviews&summarize&numdays=Z&blog=XXXXXXX

Just change “Z” from 7 to 1, and you get your full breakdown of stats for the current date. But that’s what the “Other Posts” link should do in the first place; I shouldn’t have to dance around it by clicking something else and manually tinkering with the URL.

Hey, I was struggling with the same thing myself. I wanted certain menu items to carry a different text color. After tinkering for awhile and almost giving up, I found the following worked:

li.NEWCLASS a {
color: #ffffff !important;
}

If you want different colors for link, visited, hover, active, then you’d want to use this:

li.NEWCLASS a:link {
color: #ffffff !important;
}
li.NEWCLASS a:visited {
color: #ff0000 !important;
}
li.NEWCLASS a:hover {
color: #ff00ff !important;
}
li.NEWCLASS a:active {
color: #0000ff !important;
}

Update: the problem above continues on cnyradio.com. To describe further, the stats page still looks like the OLD version. Still no graph at the top, and the “old” style stats listings (how many post views, referrers, etc.) below.

On peterthedj.com , also running WP3.1 with Jetpack, the NEW stats page appears perfectly, no problems.

My “control” site, pnaw10.com – has not had Jetpack installed. Still running the old, standalone version of Stats and it appears to be okay.

Despite looking slightly different from each other, all three sites use the same theme (Atahualpa), so that rules out a theme-specific issue.

All three sites are self-hosted on the same server, so it wouldn’t be a server-specific problem either.

While I’m not getting the error message, there’s definitely something wrong with my stats on cnyradio.com (haven’t checked my other two sites yet).

It’s considering today to be yesterday — I know it’s already 3/18/11 UTC, but it’s still 3/17 here in the Eastern US. Never had a problem with Stats not “knowing” the correct timezone before.

Also noticing that the stats numbers are WAY below where they normally are for my site, and a post that’s several months old is currently my top post for the “today” that hasn’t even started yet. This is very unusual because my top posts are usually the newest posts.

I’m glad that I have Google Analytics as a redundant backup, but I prefer WordPress Stats since it’s right there whenever I login to the admin area.

Found this thread through a Google search for “image title image wordpress” because I want to include both regular text AND a small “New!!” button image I created… obviously, to show people there is something new there.

While the above thread doesn’t help me much, I did have an idea.

Why not alter the theme PHP code so that WordPress displays an img tag in the area where it would normally display the widget title? And then, in the WP Admin, where you’d normally type the name of the widget title, you type the filename of the image you want?

As always, the only downside to making custom changes to your theme is that your changes will be wiped out if your theme’s author ever releases a new version and you upgrade. So be sure to make note of exactly what you changed, because you’ll just need to change it again anytime you upgrade to a new version of the theme. Of course, if you created your own theme from scratch, then this entire paragraph doesn’t apply. But it’s important to note for anyone else reading this, who may be using a ready-made theme.

Still having problems with this — I even inserted some PHP code into my theme’s header.php (right before the day-dependent image is called) to try to “force” the proper local time zone to be observed. But still no cigar.

Also changed my WordPress admin timezone setting back and forth between “America/New York” and UTC-5 several times. Neither is successful. Even though the right time DOES show in the “example” output right there on the WP admin, my homepage is still calling the “It’s Friday!” image starting at 7:00pm on Thursdays.

Thanks for the suggestion. Tried what you suggested, but I just caught it misbehaving the same as when I originally posted.

It’s just past 7pm local time on Thursday, yet the “Friday” graphical header is now appearing on my homepage. This is obviously following UTC or Greenwich Time or whatever — even though it shouldn’t be. (I am in the Eastern U.S.)

To the original poster: Not sure how knowledgeable you are with stats, so pardon me if I’m telling you something you already know.

The WordPress Stats plugin will NOT tell you anything that will help identify your visitors. It just simply counts how many times each page or post on your blog is visited. It doesn’t keep track of IP numbers, cookies or anything else that would help determine whether your visitors are first-timers or repeat visitors. (Or if it does, WordPress hasn’t given us access to that data yet.)

More than likely the predecessor was using a different service like Google Analytics, or as esmi indicated, they may have been using the raw server access logs to somehow determine visitor identity. (Most web servers do log the IP number of every single visitor, but most of the time, they just appear as unending streams of text and numbers unless you have software capable of translating the raw data into something more user-friendly.)

If you’re still on friendly terms with your site’s predecessor, check with that person to see if they had a Google Analytics account (or some other service), and if they’d be willing to give you the login information. If it IS Google Analytics and they setup the Analytics account as part of their personal Google account, they won’t want to share their password, obviously… so maybe you can set up a Google account for yourself and ask them to transfer ownership of the Analytics account to your Google account.

Worst case scenario: you just set up a new Google Analytics account on your own. You won’t have access to any previous stats, but at least you’ll have stats beginning from now onward. Just make sure you remove any pre-existing Google Analytics code before you insert the new code Google provides. Not sure what kinds of headaches may ensue if you have code for two different Analytics accounts running on the same site. Doubt it would cause your site to meltdown, but I don’t think you’d be getting accurate stats either.

Both of my sites are running on self-hosted servers (ie. not one of WordPress’ servers) so I wasn’t aware of this restriction.

In order to run Google Analytics, all you need to do is add a few lines of code to one of your theme’s template files (usually footer.php). Unless wordpress.com prevents you from editing your theme files (which would surprise me) I’m not sure how there would be a problem.

But trick77 is right — the WP Stats plugin only shows you how many times a certain page was visited. It doesn’t store IP numbers or other data that would make it possible to see how many visitors are new/returning/etc. or even just someone playing with your stats by reloading a page constantly. You’ll need an external counter (whether it be Google or something else) to get more comprehensive traffic reports. Besides WP Stats, I have both Google Analytics, ShareThis and Feedburner (from back before it was owned by Google) on my websites… so I have at least 4 different ways to track my traffic. It’s interesting to see how the counts will sometimes differ, or at least to have backups if any of the services has a temporary outage.

More bad news:

https://themehybrid.com/themes/options
https://themehybrid.com/themes/structure

Both pages say the themes are no longer available for download. In other words, he’s not going to be providing any updates. We’re left to fend for ourselves… I wasn’t planning to be up all night tinkering with PHP code… arrrrgh!!