There is a workaround fix for this very famous Wordpress Plugin Popularity Contest by Alexa King. You can now use it with Wordpress 2.5 and above with this quick fix.

First of all go to phpmyadmin and add this new table so that you can use it with the latest wordpress blog.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_ak_popularity` (
`post_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`total` int(11) NOT NULL,
`feed_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`home_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`archive_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`category_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`single_views` int(11) NOT NULL,
`comments` int(11) NOT NULL,
`pingbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`trackbacks` int(11) NOT NULL,
`last_modified` datetime,
KEY `post_id` (`post_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_ak_popularity_options` (
`option_name` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
`option_value` varchar(50) NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM;

Then edit your “plugins/popularity-contest.php”. Change this at line 59

(’../../wp-blog-header.php’);

to

(’../wp-blog-header.php’);

Enjoy!

Popularity: 4%

Problem uploading images with Wordpress 2.5.1 into your wp-content folder?

You will able to upload it again with this simple wordpress image upload workaround fix.

So are you getting error message such as “http error” when uploading images using wordpress 2.5.x ?

Do not worry here is a quick fix. First of all, download a copy of your .htaccess in your home directory.

Now add this few lines inside .htaccess to disable the security module.

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>


After that create a folder called “uploads” in wp-content.

Remember to chmod 777 to both “wp-content” and “uploads” folder.

Ok. You are done here. Not that really hard to apply the fix.

Enjoy

Popularity: 5%

This is another quick guide that i found while upgrading my Wordpress 2.2 to Wordpress 2.5.1. First of all, when you upgraded your wordpress sql database, your old UTW tags are still remain in the database. You need to import them into wp_tags table. You can do it automatically with a new feature implemented in the new Wordpress 2.5.x.

So how to import that UTW tags so that i can work with it in Wordpress 2.5.1 ? Alright, go to the manage tab in your wordpress admin page. Next move on to import tab under manage. Then voila! you will see that there is an option for you to easily import Ultimate Tag Warrior tags into Wordpress tags. Click on Ultimate Tag Warrior below the page and follow the instruction. Its very easy. Just few click away and you are done.

Steps may take a few minutes depending on the size of your database. Please be patient.

Reading UTW Tags…

Done! 1337 tags were read.

The following tags were found:

If you don’t want to import any of these tags, you should delete them from the UTW tag management page and then re-run this import.

Reading UTW Post Tags…

Done! 1963 tags to post relationships were read.

Adding Tags to Posts…

Done! 1963 tags were added!

Import Complete!

OK, so we lied about this being a 5-step program! You’re done!

Now wasn’t that easy?

Ok, you are done now! Simple or not? Any problem please comment here.

I will guide you. Please do not worry

Popularity: 5%

This is a quick, simple and safe wordpress upgrade how-to guide. First of all, backup all your SQL database and your blog folders. After that only we begin with the upgrade. You can easily backup or dump your database into a file from your cpanel or etc.

Secondly, login to your old wordpress admin page, from the plugin page, deactivate all the plugins first because it may cause compatibility problem in the latest wordpress due to outdated plugins. After you have done, rename your folder to something else first. Now, upload your new wordpress-2.5.1.tar.gz source file into your home directory. Extract it and rename it back exactly like your old wordpress name.

Next, move on to your blog home directory, edit the file called wp-config-sample.php. Change the value accordingly to your old wordpress config file. Please do not use back the old config.php because it may be different in terms of structure or coding. Just use back the same values for the same field. Next login to your wordpress blog through your browser.

Wordpress will now automatically detect that if your database needed to be upgraded to the new wordpress 2.5.1 structure. Wordpress will now ask you to upgrade the SQL database if necessary. Click on upgrade wordpress and continue. Just follow the simple steps and enjoy! Just wait a couple of minute and you’re done depending on the size of your database. Your wordpress database will automatically upgraded to the new wordpress database structure. Now reupload your plugins and themes. Go to the plugins tab and reactivate all the plugins again. If the plugins is outdated, you can do an automatically plugin update with Wordpress 2.5.1.

Ok you are done! Very simple upgrade right? Do you believe it i upgrade from wordpress 2.2 to wordpress 2.5.1 in less than 30 minutes

Suggestion and comments are welcomed. Have Fun playing with the latest wordpress.

Popularity: 3%

Great news, my tech blog successfully upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 which is the most stable release. I applied a simple wordpress hack to fix all the minor bug in this releases such as the image upload bug, broken link caused by change of permalink structure and etc. Just took me an hour to setup everything. The database upgrade was made so easy in wordpress 2.5.1. One word to describe Wordpress 2.5.1 “COOL”. Everyone should make a move to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1 to enjoy all the new features. You can have your plugins auto updated in this new wordpress. Fully ajax supported themes and plugins. Quick and easy customization.

Popularity: 3%

Do you know that when you misconfigured your wordpress blog you may expose to hackers? Hackers can easily exploit any vulnerability found in your wordpress blog. They can easily gain full access to your blog.

How to secure my Wordpress blog? Simply update to the latest version of wordpress blog. Older version tend to have certain security issue. Therefore it is highly recommended to upgrade your wordpress blog.

Besides that, be careful when installing plugins downloaded from unidentified source or author. This is because these plugins may have been modified by certain people and therefore it may contain backdoor for hackers to exploit the system.

So make sure you always download plugins only from trusted source such as wordpress.com.

Popularity: 3%

WordPress 2.5 is the most current stable releases and was said to be bug free at the moment. Many new features that are implemented in the new wordpress 2.5. It is encouraged to upgrade to this new version to benefits from the new features that developer implemented.

In my point of view, i think we should stay and wait because the new features implemented for wordpress 2.5 are not fully tested by public. Basically it may contain some minor or maybe major bug within it. So i do not think we should upgrade it first due to security issue and more. We should wait and see how other blogger response with the new wordpress 2.5. If it is really stable, then we can consider upgrading.

We may plan for the upgrade but not at the moment. For your information, older themes and plugins may not work perfectly and not 100% compatible with latest Wordpress 2.5.

So do you guys still wanna upgrade or should we wait?

Popularity: 3%

Please update your wordpress to latest stable version WordPress (Version 2.3.2)

If you are using WordPress 2.3.x please update immediately. There is a bug in wordpress that will leak some webserver data and your database structure to outsider.

Please take fast action now to update your WordPress before someone hack your WordPress blog.

Popularity: 4%