While most of the presentation is geared towards wonky development details and stats, anyone looking to push what they’re currently doing with their WordPress site should find plenty of takeaways.

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Call to undefined function thematic_canonical_url() .. line 25 ..

the function was deprecated and is no longer necessary, but it may still be lingering in your child theme’s header.php file.

In your child theme header.php file, delete the following from lines 24-25

    // Creating the canonical URL
thematic_canonical_url();

Now you should be back in business!

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To be clear, WordPress alone is not appropriate for medium to large scale web shops, for which we generally recommend a Magento-based solution integrated with WordPress for content management.

For smaller shops (less than 500 products), a few clear leaders in WordPress e-commerce solutions have emerged and deserve attention.  WooCommerce, Cart66 and Jigoshop.

How do we judge which solutions are best for our clients? We look for rigorous development cycles with updates and new features released constantly, a large user base and support community, a robust feature set and a future trajectory of being the most widely used and supported WordPress e-commerce solution.

After evaluating all three options, we’re going with WooCommerce.  We like the impressive feature set, the low-entry pricing model based on premium extensions, and this:

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As happens from time to time when a great plugin is left to die, we went through the latest options for easy one-click and automated backups and have settled back on an old favorite that has been updated with increasing frequency: BackUpWordpress

So far, so good.  It will perform daily automated backups of both source files and your mysql databse.  How do you like BackUpWordPress?  Any other open-source solutions we should check out?

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Zarrella says the right Twitter strategy depends in part on what your goals are. Want to accumulate as many followers as possible? Then tweet a lot: Twitter’s A-listers — those with the most followers — tweet an average of 22 times a day, and more tweets generally lead to more followers. But if your goal is to drive more traffic to your site, you should show a little more restraint; accounts that share two or more links an hour show a dramatically lower clickthrough rate than those who share no more than one.

It’s an inexact science, but at least it’s an attempt at science where so much social media strategy is driven by intuition. (Zarrella complains about the the “unicorns and rainbows” strategy: “Love your customers, hug your followers, engage in the conversations. It sounds like good advice, and it’s hard to disagree with,” he says. “But generally, it’s not based in anything substantial.”)

After collecting more than two years of data, Zarrella shared his findings Tuesday in a webinar called “The Science of Timing.” That science is less about when and more about when not — what he calls “contra-competitive timing.” The trick is to reach people when the noise of the crowd has died down.

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mysqlcheck -Aor -u YOUR-LOGIN-ID -p

This will automatically repair and optimize all of your mysql databses and tables.  Pretty neat!  This worked well for me on bluehost.

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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.

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

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