Nextgen Gallery throwing ‘A Failure Occured’ error when resizing images

A recent implementation of the super useful WordPress Nextgen Gallery was giving me trouble when I tried to Resize Images in bulk.

Solution: Check your memory settings in php.ini.  This setting did the trick for me.

memory_limit = 128M

Just place the above line in a blank text file, save it as php.ini and upload it to your WordPress directory.

The State of WordPress: 2011

I was impressed with Matt Mullenweg’s presentation on how far WordPress has come as a platform and how it is heading dynamically into the future.

As you know, we love WordPress so this was fun to watch.  Interested in setting up your own site on WordPress? Say HI!

Twitterfeed not working? Try reauthenticating.

Is Twitterfeed not sending your posts consistently to Twitter and Facebook? Try re-authenticating both services, particularly Twitter which has changed authentication standards over the past year.

We just tried it on one of our feeds and things seem to be humming along again. Give it a try if you’re having a problem with Twitterfeed.

Blank RSS in WordPress 3.2 Solution

One of our WordPress-based sites was not syndicating properly to TwitterFeed, an app we use to push WordPress updates to Twitter and Facebook.  Further inspection revealed the RSS feed was blank when access via our browser.

The problem: the RSS feed was not validating properly, thus showing as blank in reputable browsers like Firefox and Chrome.  We used Feed Validator to troubleshoot the feed, which found an invalid character in one of the posts:

XML parsing error: <unknown>:81:1: not well-formed (invalid token)

 

 

Deleting the bad character–probably an artifact from cutting and pasting rich text from email–solved the issue.  Hope this helps others with empty RSS feeds.