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Fix: WordPress 3.1 and Disqus Plugin Error When Returning Comments Count
24 Feb 2011 by Evan Wondrasek / 50 Comments
If you use the popular 3rd-party commenting system Disqus in your WordPress-powered website, you may have noticed that some errors appeared in your Posts lists after upgrading to WordPress 3.1. The specific error you see would be something like: Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 155 I’ve had problems with Disqus messin...
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Fix: WPtouch Pro Plugin Breaks WordPress 3.1′s Admin Bar
23 Feb 2011 by Evan Wondrasek / 4 Comments
WordPress 3.1 rolled out today and brought with it several new features, one being the WordPress admin bar. This feature has been previously available to WordPress.com users and is now available to self-hosted sites (like Techerator), and gives logged-in users access to page controls without having to leave the site. Sites that use the popular WordPress plugin WPtouch or WPtouch Pro will notice t...
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WordPress: How to Fix Author RSS Feeds with the FD Feedburner Plugin
21 Feb 2011 by Evan Wondrasek / 1 Comment
If you run a WordPress-based website and offer RSS feeds to your readers, the WordPress plugin FD Feedburner is invaluable. This plugin automatically redirects any RSS feed on your website to the correct Feedburner feed with very simple configuration. One problem with FD Feedburner is that it doesn’t support individual author RSS feeds. Since we have a team of writers here at Techerator, ea...
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How to Filter Your Facebook News Feed with the New Version of Facebook
16 Apr 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 6 Comments
About a year ago, I wrote a guide to filtering the noise from your Facebook News Feed that worked for the old version of Facebook. The News Feed can get really messy when a lot of your friends are playing games like Farmville, Mob Wars, etc., and the old version of Facebook provided you with a simple method to view status updates only. Facebook has since released a new version which rendered my ...
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7 Gifts For Your Special Geek This Valentine’s Day
12 Feb 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
With Valentine’s Day happening this Sunday, hopefully you have thought ahead and purchased your special someone a gift already. If you haven’t purchased your Valentine a gift yet, then continuing reading to get some ideas for what to get them this year. E-Book Reader (Him and Her) Chances are that your special someone likes to cozy up at night with a good book. Instead of purchasin...
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Fix: Adobe AIR Apps Crash After Upgrading to Fedora 12
25 Nov 2009 by Dustin Patterson / 6 Comments
After upgrading your system to Fedora 12, you may notice that some of your Adobe AIR applications no longer load properly. The problem may persist even after you have reinstalled both Adobe AIR and the individual Adobe AIR applications. An error you may receive when installing the AIR applications is shown below: Application crashed with an unhandled SIGSEGV The above problem is caused by an inv...
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Fix: Windows Vista 64-bit Gets Blue Screen After Windows Updates
26 Aug 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 273 Comments
A recent Windows Update (KB973879) has been causing a “blue screen of death” (stop error) in many computers running Windows Vista 64-bit edition. Many of the affected computers are HP Pavillion dv Series laptops (such as dv4 and dv6 models), but we have had reports of other manufactures having the same issues. The problem occurs shortly after starting the computer. The specific err...
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Fix: Connecting USB Devices To VirtualBox On Fedora 11
14 Aug 2009 by Dustin Patterson / 8 Comments
Update: This problem has been resolved in VirtualBox Version 3.0.8. Remove the following fix before upgrading to 3.0.8 to take advantage of the update. For help on installing VirtualBox on Fedora 11, checkout our guide. I have come across one problem with VirtualBox on Fedora 11 – USB devices are listed in the device manager but are grayed out and cannot be enabled. To see if this probl...
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Fix: Firefox Won’t Save Cookies or Auto-Logins
02 Jun 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 10 Comments
Update 06-16-09: Mozilla has announced in Firefox 3.0.11 that “Several issues were reported with the internal database, SQLite, which have now been fixed by upgrading to a newer version.” So if this guide works for you, be sure to upgrade to the newest version of Firefox. It can strike when you least expect it – Firefox amnesia. The symptom: Firefox no longer keep...
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How To: Install and Configure Nvidia Drivers in Ubuntu 9.04
24 Apr 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 2 Comments
Although Ubuntu has fantastic driver support in recent editions, I had some initial difficulty getting the Nvidia graphics drivers (for my GeForce 8600GT) properly installed and configured in Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”. The built-in video drivers supported multiple monitors, but I was only able to drag windows halfway across the secondary monitor before they would become “s...
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