Monthly Archives May 2007

Calling myself ‘Me’, not ‘We’

There’s an interesting discussion going on at the Business of Software forum about using ‘me’ or ‘we’ in websites. I’d like to chip in, for what it’s worth.
WP Text Ads is a 1-man shop, and I do not pretend that it isn’t.
Back when I had to think of all the text on the […]

1 Click to Stop & Start Plugins

If you use WordPress plugins, you’d have come across situations where you need to deactivate all your plugins and then activate them at a later time.
This plugin lets you do that with 1 click!
This is how it works. If there are plugins loaded, then a click of 1 Click Stop & Start Plugins will deactivate […]

‘Categories’ returns 500 Internal Server Error

That’s right, folks. Another inexplicable error courtsey of WordPress :).
Every page loads perfectly except for Manage → Categories.
Not only would I get the “500 Internal Server Error”, my Debian server would give the following message:
glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0×08a11520 ***
I figured it couldn’t be my server since everything else worked fine, so it […]

XML Error in WordPress RSS Feeds

My RSS feeds started to act weird this evening.
The FireFox browser gave this error when I tried to view the feed.
“XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity … Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>”
The problem was caused by one of my plugins that inserted a blank line at the top […]

Post Footer Plugin

If you scroll down to the end of this post, you will see some text that goes:
“About the author: I’m Alex Choo and I live in sunny Singapore. I’m also the developer of WP Text Ads, a WordPress plugin that lets bloggers sell ads directly to advertisers … ”
It’s easy to add this snippet of […]

5 Startup Mistakes I Made

WP Text Ads finally went live on 2 May 2007. As I reflected back on the effort that was put into it, I thought it would be interesting to share with you some of the mistakes I made.

Be willing to spend on what you need

Back when I embarked on WP Text Ads, I decided […]