The server quit without updating PID file and all that jazz.

The story: I was getting session file write errors (write failed: No space left on device (28) ) in wp admin, i checked /tmp folder but it was not full, only 60% percent was used. ...

pfn_list_corrupt error

I just got BSOD’ed with pfn_list_corrupt error. A quick search suggests it’s probably memory -RAM- related. I had recently installed AMD’s RAMDisk hoping i would ...

How to get random tags in wordpress

I needed a placeholder for tags input but it’s boring to display the same tags every time. But unlike posts, WP doesnt have “rand” orderby paramater. So what you ...

Lol what a surprise..

I’ve been pulling my hair why my custom cursor wouldnt work. Turns out, IE (yes, big surprise) takes site url instead of stylesheet as baseurl when it comes to cursors....

Some people (hint: starts with me) just dont learn

Time and again i fall for this same simple mistake. This may not be intuitive in the context of serialized arrays. If you fetch a serialized array with this method you want $single...

If you need an ID just get an ID

If you are familiar with WordPress, you should already know that you should almost never have to use get_posts(). Your best bet is to use WP_Query . As good as wp_query is, you sho...

Problems with multibyte characters

There are mb_strlen() and mb_substr() for multibyte characters however there is no mb_str_word_count. Hence my previous post....

Türkçe karakter sayım problemleri

Türkçe veya diğer özel -multibyte- karakterler için malesef PHP str_word_count(), strlen() gibi fonksiyonlarda yanlış sayım veriyor, her özel karakter 2 kelime / karakter sayılıyor...

Local timestamp problem

Always check for local time Despite the fact that my server timezone was set correctly, somehow time() was giving wrong ( UTC) hour. So i ended up using wp’s functions to mak...