Summary: WordPress Plugins from A to Z Episode 87 It’s Episode #87 and we’ve got plugins for Redirection, Bulk Content Movement, Vimeo integration, RSS imports and more. It’s the WordPress Plugins Podcast that other designers don’t want you to know about.. It’s WordPress Plugins A-Z! WordPress Plugins AtoZ Podcast Can also be found at WPPluginsAtoZ.com We can be found on Stitcher Radio Click here to Download app or listen online Now. Find us on the iTunes Store here. Marcus Rants: 500 Errors I was working on a client site and happened to be doing something that I haven’t yet had to do.. Create a new category. I decided to try this addition “in-post” and save some time. A second after I created the category, the whole site went to a 500 error. I refreshed.. Same thing. Switch browsers.. NOTHING. When times like this hit you as a designer or webmaster, its important to remember one important thing. DON’T PANIC! Sometimes WordPress is sensitive, like that old lamp you used to own with the electrical cord that had to be twisted in just the right way in order to get juice. But in this case, it’s a cord for every plugin you have installed! So when this happens to you, work backwards and work from the root level. Head to your WordPress install via FTP. Rename your plugins folder to plugins-temp. See if that fixes it (it will trick WordPress and remove all active running plugins). If not, rename your .htaccess file (if you have one) to .htaccess-temp and then refresh after 10-15 seconds. Did that fix it? Great! Now rename your plugin folder back to just plain “plugins” and refresh. Still working? OK, then it’s something to do with a particular plugin interacting with your htaccess file. In my case, this was a redirection plugin. There were existing 301 redirects in the .htaccess as well as a plugin in Wordpress trying to 301 the same pages. So in a nutshell.. 500 error.. reset your htaccess and rename your plugin folder. It’s a good first step to getting to the bottom of a problem. World of WordPress News and other interesting WordPress related posts: The Drop Shadow Boxes plugin that we both use and enjoy, as well as many of our listeners, has just been updated. The newest version (1.4) now allows you to place boxes side by side in posts, which is something that I have been bugging them about since I started using it. Good functionality improvement on a plugin with a 5 rating. Blogrolls Gone in WordPress. How to Save Your Links. **WordPress Plugins Reviewed by John** Source Redirect Site 1.1.0 Version: 1.1.0 Author: Skashi and Lumo from Press Pixels Last Updated: 50 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 3.1 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 2,666 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: Ok the problem I have a client who has 2 parked domains on top of his site and we need ssl to work properly on the main one so if someone came in through one of the other domains we needed to get them into site properly before anything else happened. While this is a great freemium plugin the free version was not what I needed so had to opt for the paid one at $20 which allows for custom redirection setup.. Rating 3 Dragons Bulk Move 0.9 Version: 0.9 Author: Sudar Last Updated: 69 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher Compatible up to: 3.4.2 Downloaded: 15,167 times WordPress.org Plugin Page » Plugin Homepage » The Lowdown: I needed a simple way to bulk move lots of posts from an older category to a newer one. The plugin turned out to be a very nice way to bulk move posts to a new category. As a warning once you move them there is no easy way to move them back so make sure you want to move them. Rating 4 Dragons DM Albums 3.1.6 Version: 3.1.6 Author: Frank D. Strack Last Updated: 102 days ago Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher Compatible up to: 3.3.2 Downloaded: 93,642 times WordPress.
