Elliott Rodgers

I’m adding an exciting new feature on my website soon… So watch this space.

Added two more galleries; a Snowscapes Photo Gallery and a Sunsets Photo Gallery.

If you are planning on leaving comments on my website, there are a few simple rules. Follow them and it’ll all be fine. Don’t get me wrong I like recieving comments, when they are worthwhile and appropriate.

• Comments should actually be meaningful, worthwhile and appropriate for the page/blog entries.
• If you put a web address with the comment, it should not be a link to site which contains inappropriate content such as porn or a site that hasn’t been updated for months.
• Don’t fill your comment with nothing but links.
• Comments have to be in English.

If you’re thinking of spamming me, bear the following in mind:

• I use Akismet so any spam will be caught.
• All comments are moderated, that means only I will see it and I’m not interested in your spam.
• Your IP address and ISP are automatically collected. This makes it very easy for me to track you down when you spam me even if you supply a false email address. I can also track you through proxy servers as well so don’t bother trying. I’ll send a copy of your spam comment to your ISP.

See quite simple, fair and easy… These rules can also be found on the page Site Comments

I’ve added some galleries to the photography menu today – Artistic Gallery, London Zoo Gallery, Random Photos Gallery and a Wild Birds Photo Gallery.

Hope you enjoy them.

Part of the reason for moving my personal site over to WordPress was since I’m moving various sites onto a Virtual Private Server (VPS) from names.co and the fact I really fancied a change in design. It seemed a good time to bite the bullet and go for it. Within a couple minutes of installing doing a manual install of WordPress version 3 (which I really like a lot) at 5am on a Saturday morning (couldn’t sleep) I kept getting weird errors.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3136 bytes) in ****/httpdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 958 (have obscured part of the server address for security reasons). Initially I suspected something had gone wrong with the WP3 installation but this didn’t seem to be true. Google is always handy in these situations so off I went to do some research. You should avoid the temptation to allocate a site too much memory since this may impact on other sites you have on the same server setup. (Some webhosts don’t allow you access to the php.ini file or to change memory allocations in which case you are going to have to use their tech support).

Altering your .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 32M

Alter your wp-config.php file:
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’32M’);

Alter your php.ini file: (if you have access to your PHP.ini file)
memory_limit = 32M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (32MB)

Contact your webhost tech support team
sometimes all else fails and you need some advice, at names.co they are absolutely brilliant.

Welcome to my new look website, this is the first time I’ve used WordPress as a complete CMS for my personal site. The change to my personal site is part of a bigger plan to move all the sites I’m involved in onto a Virtual Private Server (still from names.co). This will give me a whole new range of extra technology to use on my websites (including CRON jobs and mod_rewrites). It also means that my company ERS Web Solutions will also be able to offer customers hosting alongside the other services.

I decided on the Prosumer Theme since it ticked all the right boxes for me. I will probably change the colour scheme and tweak a few small things. The current header image of a sunset is part of a photo I took across the Pednor hills near Chesham, where Sheppie likes to go play ball and I like to sit there, watch the Red Kites flying overhead and have a think.

Although I pulled an all nighter and got the basic bits and pieces together, along with a lot of content, it’s going to take a few more days before a lot of the content is back (including book reviews), so please be patient while I do all this.