Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’
- Posted by Mon
- October 27th, 2011
I had the pleasure to experience that last night… again! Last time it was a plugin… this time is not. After doing hours of searching… people said that some files maybe infected or the blog could be hacked. Well… that might not be the case. For mine, I recently did an upgrade to the latest version of wodpress, then come back days later the admin section is all blank – no matter which url I typed. Here are the symptoms:
- The blog’s front-end is still working fine, nothing seems out of place or broken
- I got to the login screen, but as soon as I logged in, it was completely blank
- I could not access any of page in the admin such as by typing: /wp-admin/plugins.php – all blank
Before going into crazy mode on trying to figure out what’s going on with what I went through below… If you have similar symptoms like mine, just go to worpress, download a new copy, download the bad /wp-admin/ copy, and upload the entire /wp-admin/. Fixed it for me instantly. But if you want to know what I had to went through before figuring that easy solution…
Oh and before doing this, like I mentioned above… instead of keeping your admin down and messing with it live, I suggest download the bad copy of the /wp-admin/ locally, upload the brand new copy downloaded from wordpress and continue the diagnosis locally. If the new upload didn’t fix your wordpress admin, then it probably isn’t the same problem. The rest of this won’t help you.
- I checked blog’s front-end and was still running fine – checked if any page is broken or funky stuff showing up on the pages. A broken plugin might have be the culprit or you simply got hacked
- So far so good, nothing seems broken or out of place. Login, page goes blank. I run the plugin Login Lockdown, so I FTP in and deleted the folder to see if that’s the culprit – nope. Put it back in.
- Checked the error log and see what threw error(s) recently – did the same thing above. No go.
- Found some people said that empty returns on functions.php or wp-config.php in your theme can cause that – make sure no blank space on top or bottom…
- Some said check files for weird stuff got append on top of some php files – checked all files inside wp-admin folder – nope
- Fast forward 3 hours later – finally re-uploaded a new copy of the /wp-admin/ – fixed! Son of a…
Final note: if it got fixed, but you should at least try to find out which files and what caused it by going through Step 4 or 5 – you never know, you might have been infected. I wasn’t, just a bad upgrade.
Hope that helps.
- Posted by Mon
- September 24th, 2009
I’ve been very silent on Facebook, Twitter, and this blog lately. That because I can’t constantly access Twitter anymore from work, they blocked me… so no more useful stuff to tweet and brag about excepted one thing: Pods CMS. Pods CMS is a WordPress plugin that pretty much turn your blog into a CMS. You can build a Wiki, Glossary, Recipes, Hotel listing etc… the possibilities are endless. Although, you will need to know at least some PHP to make this thing tuned to the way you want it to be. I have been playing with it in the past 2 weeks, I have to say I am very impress of how this plugin works. So I did a test on one of my hobbies: Kendo. I’ve always wanted to collect data on Kendo Dojo, how many practitioners, and Kendo tournament results in the U.S. I was able to create this very complex database that it can be listed by Federations, State, Country, Dojo, and down to the individual Kendo-ist data. The awesome thing is? Each listing can be linked to one another. For example, if you viewing by Federations, you can list all the Dojo in that federation, and with links to each Dojo AND the state. You can add BUILT-IN filters and search on top! The backend is all done for you, all you have to do is to make things pretty. Ain’t that grant?
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- Posted by Mon
- July 28th, 2009
After 2 days, 16 hours of work, I introduce my new theme UnDeprived :) Feels good… :D
I would eventually do a writeup for my entire design process of coming up with this theme. That because I think I am having a case of early alzheimer or something. I can’t remember what I want to do in the next 5 minutes, and I have to resort to use a task manager (Remember the Milk) to remind me of things lately. (more…)
- Posted by Mon
- July 17th, 2009

I got this idea of this article after me and JavaJunky talking and given a tutorial of how Twitter works to a couple of our friends at my birthday party. When they went home, 3 people were on Twitter. I guess me and JavaJunky did a good job on the sales pitch. (more…)
- Posted by Mon
- July 14th, 2009
Last month I did a fresh install on this server and I had so many problems with 2.8, so 3 days ago I did another fresh install of 2.8.1, but I got my SQL backups corrupted somehow… anyways, I last logged that I could not get the http_error to go away and it seems to be a very common problem for users who upgraded to 2.8 and up. When you are using the default image Flash Uploader, it’ll says http_error in red. If you use the Browser Uploader, it just goes blank after you hit Upload. Even though the imag is uploaded, you cannot do any further editing with it (see screenshots):


I’ve tried messing with the .htacess, making file sizes smaller. Making images smaller than 600px wide seemed to work for some, but not all. Then I also noticed that Nextgen Gallery also has the same problem as the default image uploader. In fact, NextGen Gallery warns that maximum memory exceed at 16.xxMB. So I went to NextGen Gallery’s site and found this in the FAQ. Then I went into my Cpanel to investigate the PHP settings, lo and behold the memory_limit is set to 16MB. I opened up a ticket to ask my host to increase the limit to 24MB, problem solved. I no longer have any error when uploading any images.
One last thing though, after I got the memory_limit changed from 16MB to 24MB. I started to get 505 Internal Server Error. Luckily, I have a very awesome host, they fixed the problem within half an hour after I opened a ticket. Although, my host used .htaccess to fix the problem. Then a new problem came out, all the permalinks seem to be no longer working. They all returned as 505 Internal Sever Error. I solved it by checking the .htacess file and took out what my host put in and just left the WordPress .htaccess – problem fixed.
Hope that helps someone else out there.