Tag Archive for 'Wordpress'

My wife is off getting drinks with a friend at the Forbidden Island bar, which is about a block away, so I decided to stay at home and clean my never-ending folder of bookmarks…

I realized, after I started to sort these wads of unsorted bookmarks, that they are less “gems” than I had at first imagined. Unfortunately, they could be sorted again into another file entitled “worth reading” while 80%+ could be deleted (and should have been if I had spent any time on them in the first place).

As I realize that my blog has abysmal loading times, I jettisoned the modified theme I was using and started using K2, the theme on which the theme I was using was based. This theme is lighter, and the javascript is not getting hung up as much… perhaps I will not have to spend the double the current, cheap rate for “good” hosting as I feared.

One nice thing about K2 is the fact that it uses a lovely custom sidebar, which I unfortunately discovered is non-compliant with WordPress 2.5. Installing this borked my Admin panel so that I could not login and post this awesome post.

Fortunately, I was able to query the internet Gods (well, Google) using the following text “Call to undefined function: wp_register_sidebar_widget” to find a solution which is described below (with a useful note added in fuschia for the PHP non-savvy)

To fix the error:
navigate to your K2 folder -> app -> includes
edit the file widgets-removal.php as below

Change the contents of the file from:

< ?php
if (get_option('k2sidebarmanager') == '1') {
remove_action('plugins_loaded', 'wp_maybe_load_widgets', 0);
}
?>
to [remove the space before ?php]

< ?php
if (get_option('k2sidebarmanager') == '1') {
remove_action('plugins_loaded', 'wp_maybe_load_widgets', 0);
if( is_admin() )
{global $pagenow; if( $pagenow == 'index.php' ) wp_maybe_load_widgets();
}
}
?>

This worked like a charm, pending a new version of K2 for WP 2.5.

Now off to delete 75% of the carefully sorted bookmarks…