Tobi D's wordpress work

Mysql Server Has Gone Away

tobiasstrixat — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:17:46 +0000

while hacking around in wordpress i encountered an annoying error: “Mysql server has gone away”.

the reason for “mysql server has gone away” in my case has been a too large sql query. while the content field for options in wordpress is defined as longtext (~2^32 bytes), the connection between php and the mysql server has a much smaller restriction: max_allowed_packet. in my case this was set to 1 mb (afaik, the default value). the option table entry is clearly above (~2mb). i figured this out after some debugging using your queryWithReconnect function. after setting max_allowed_packet to 16M in the [mysqld] section in my.ini, everything worked flawless.

if this doesn’t solve your problem, try the workaround by rob.

Gallery Import

tobiasstrixat — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:35:02 +0000

i am currently working on a gallery import system for wordpress. It will be able to import into the media library using pages to glue galleries together and to NextGenGallery. I hope that i will be able to finish them within the next few days (spend already too much time on writing importers for wordpress …).

Geeklog Importer

tobiasstrixat — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:58:02 +0000

While migrating my website from geeklog to wordpress i stumbled upon the geeklog2wp importer from justindave (thanks’ to justindave). This is a very nice and handy piece of code, but unfortunately, some parts are not importet (links, static pages, and images). Beeing a programmer, i rather spend some weeks implementing an importer, than doing any copy paste between my old and my new website …

imported features are:

categories
users
posts
static pages
comments
links
article images

further a list of posts which should be checked for geeklog related elements is provided.

The extended version of the original importer can be downloaded from this blog: geeklog.php.

i have tested it with geeklog 1.4.1 vs wordpress 2.6.3. if you have used it for different versions, please leave a comment.