Integrating WordPress with Facebook
Facebook and WordPress (image from: www.serifgroup.com)
I find that I am on Facebook a fair amount during the day and since I have friends and family who may be interested in reading my blog and perhaps sharing an article or two here and there, I thought it might be worthwhile to integrate my site with Facebook.
I looked into the Facebook Docs to see what kind of options they had. It looked simple enough, but I thought it might be even more simple, so I checked for existing plugins for WordPress that might simplify things even further!
There are a lot of plugins to sort through, but the one that seemed to stand out the most was: Simple Facebook Connect
Upgrading to WordPress 2.9 Memory Error Fix
WordPress Logo by koka_sexton via Flickr
So I noticed yesterday that a newer version of WordPress was available. I clicked on the upgrade link and proceeded as usual until I was presented with the following error:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2515174 bytes) in /var/www/usr/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/http.php on line 1327
This appeared very odd to me at first… 33,554,432 bytes allowed, but when it attempted to allocate only 2,515,174 bytes it caused a fatal error? Well as strange as that looks, there’s an easy fix…
(note, I assume you already backed up your DB and existing wordpress installation — proceed at your own risk)
To Fix*: (assuming you want to use the auto-upgrade feature still

