While trying to upgrade a few WordPress plugins, I got this error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33564432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes)

After struggling with trying to fix this, I found a really easy solution – increase the WordPress memory allocation size from 32 MB to 64 MB.  To do this, edit your wp-settings.php and change line 13 from:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '32M');

to

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

Simple, easy and delicious. No more memory issues for any plugin upgrades!

Another way is to edit php.ini and define the memory_limit there:

memory_limit = 48M

Before you publish your email addresses somewhere on your webpage, blog or personal site, you should think about protecting it from spammers respectively from bots crawling the net looking for email addresses.

There are several methods to accomplish this. I’ll list a few of those methods:

Convert the email address to Unicode characters

This was not a bad idea in the past, but also bots evolve  It can just as easily interpret the special character entities #64;, #46; for the @ and the . characters respectively. A minor plus in this case is that, the user may be able to use their email client.

HTTP redirection

Write a server-side script to return "mailto:foo@host.com" link as an HTTP redirect. All modern browsers recognise this, but perhaps not many harvester bots do. This can be done with Apache’s mod_rewrite, Javascript or server-side scripting. Here is an example in PHP:

/* Will be displayed in browser like*/

foo’s email

/* In email_foo.php file */

<?php

header ("Location: mailto:foo@host.com");

exit();

?>

In this case the user has to follow the link and rely on their mail application to get a hold of the email address. The user has to copy the email address from the application instead of doing it directly from the webpage.

Using a JavaScript (my favorite)

/* Will be displayed in browser like*/

contact foo via mail

—- script —

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">

function email(n, d) {

if(d == 1){

document.location.href=’mailto:’ + n + ‘@gmail.com?Subject=contacting from webpage’;

}

if(d == 2){

document.location.href=’mailto:’ + n + ‘@hotmail.com?Subject=contacting from webpage’;

}

if(d == 3){

document.location.href=’mailto:’ + n + ‘@someotherdomain.com?Subject=contacting from webpage’;

}

if(d == 4){

document.location.href=’mailto:’ + n + ‘@christiano.ch?Subject=contacting from webpage’;

}

}

</script>

— end of script—

however, there are several good methods, it’s almost impossible to list them all .. if you’re interested in protecting your email address using other ways, here are a few keywords to use when searching in Goggle or Bing..

Hex values

HTML Comments

Fake email

Obfuscate AJAX

CSS pseudo-element

Images

CSS unicode-bidi

CSS display be none

Flash

Forms

Links

Methods to hide email addresses from page source

WordPress has a built-in powerful post/text editor commonly known as the “Visual” editor, which uses the open source project named “TinyMCE“. When switching from Visual to HTML editor in WordPress or vice-versa TinyMCE executes a back-end filtration process which removes empty tags, and <br> tags from the post.

TinyMCE-Advanced from WordPress is a WordPress plugin, which adds the option to disable the removal of <p> and <br> tags when saving a post and in the HTML editor. After installing and activating, the option to enable line breaks can be found in the Settings => TinyMCE Advanced panel.

=> Stop removing the <p> and <br /> tags when saving and show them in the HTML editor

TinyMCE-Advanced_StopRemovin_p_br_tags

Aditionally, this plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ WYSIWYG editor: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins can add over 40 new buttons to the toolbar.

TinyMCE_Advanced_Button_Arrangement

Tags

Stop WordPress from removing Linebreak, Linebreaks, Line Break, Line Breaks

Force Line Break in WordPress

Enabling Line Break “<br>” in WordPress

Linebreak in Posts

Stop remving <br> <p> tag in WordPress

Line break conversion

Formatting WordPress Posts using Line Breaks

By default, your site may look pretty good already, but i’m sure you will agree, this plugin (WPTouch) makes your site much more accessible for the mobile crowd. It also provides a more iPhone, iPod and Android friendly experience.

The brilliant thing with this approach is, you do NOT need to re-code a theme, or do any programming of any sort. All you have to do is install the plugin (WPTouch), activate it, and your done!

Installing the plugin WPTouch is pretty straight forward.

Switch to your WordPress Admin, choose Plugins (to the left), click Add New

Wordpress_Plugins_AddNew

Now, search the plugin named WPTouch ..then click on Install

Wordpress_Plugins_WPTouch_Install

Next click on Install now

Wordpress_Plugins_WPTouch_Install_2

WordPress will download the plugin automatically.. when done, click on Activate Plugin

Wordpress_Plugins_WPTouch_Downloaded_ActivatePlugin

The the installation of the plugin’s done and WPTouch should be activated. You can check this in the plugins section of WordPress Admin.

Optional step is configuring the WPTouch plugin. .i will not describe this in this post.. but it is pretty easy and not really necessary since that basic setup runs smooth.

Wordpress_Plugins_WPTouch_Configure

Before installing WPTouch plugin and after installing WPTouch Plugin Screenshots

Without_WPTouch_Plugin

WPTouch_PluginActivated

without_WPTouch Plugin

Wordpress_iPhone_Theme_WPTouch_Activated

That’s it. As usual, feel free to comment..