Some people, upon upgrading from WordPress 1.5.x to 2.0.x have been experiencing this error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page The most common cause of this error is an upgrade that didn’t complete. The database number has been incremented, so WordPress thinks it is up to date, but it hasn’t yet written the permissions that you will need to access the WordPress admin interface. I have written a script to force [...]

This is for me to remember, but can be useful to others as well. It took me almost a half hour to hunt down and I dont want to have to hunt it down again! Find this line in your b2functions.php (inside your b2-include folder): function wpautop($pee, $br=1) { Replace it with: function wpautop($pee, $br=0) { And no more extra line breaks!

E-Commerce Copywriting: The Guide to Selling More Quality product descriptions can transform e-commerce conversion rates – it’s common to see increases of 30-100%. As well as converting more visitors, search traffic increases drastically when unique copy is written for each product. Most online retailers use manufacturers’s copy or rely solely on images to sell products. They then use inadequate copy elsewhere on their site and fail to achieve a consistent tone to persuade their audience. [...]

There are many articles on the Internet that advise new website owners on what to add, and post to their site. However, there aren’t many articles that discuss things that you should avoid putting on your page. When taken into consideration, having horrible attributes to your site can make as much of an impact as an eye-catching slogan can. This article aims to discuss ten different things that you should avoid adding to your site, [...]

Overview http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/ The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin. How it Works The plugin provides a method called cycle which is invoked on a container element. Each child element of the container becomes a “slide”. Options control how and when [...]

What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are usually admired only by the people who created them. While designers know that a user’s experience on a website has a large impact on the way that customer will interact with them, impressing that concept on the corporate establishment has taken a very long time. [...]

Back on February 7th, I was casually browsing the WordPress trunk code, and discovered a very cool new function in the wp-includes/post-template.php file.

Beginning in WordPress 2.8, themes will be able to take advantage of the body_class() function to place location-specific classes on the opening tag, usually located in the header.php file of most themes.

Why is this significant? Easy … this opens up the ability to change the look of nearly everything with CSS only.

Before we get into the application of the body_class() function, let’s cover some technical details first.

I’m posting this solution here because it was damn hard to find elsewhere. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier for the next poor frustrated user. The problem: (After installing Office 2003 and/or updating Mozilla Firefox,) Firefox HTML icons are replaced by Windows default “unknown file type” icons. The usual simple fixes fail to restore the correct icons. The solution: Find the registry key “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FirefoxHTML\ShellEx\IconHandler” and delete it. The source of this solution: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1048725&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=98b7d1b372f2fdbef925a0be42715fcf&start=15 [...]