Tag Archives: calais

simple tags and calais auto tagger plugins don’t work well together

Computer Aid Posted on by

I’ve been looking at improving how I add tags to my blog posts, and I found 2 good plugins, which I thought would complement each other nicely… but they don’t work well together.

http://www.dangrossman.info/wp-calais-auto-tagger/

http://www.herewithme.fr/wordpress-plugins/simple-tags

When I activate both with wordpress 2.5.1, I find some aspects of calais don’t appear, and certain other aspects of simple-tags will either no appear, or just refuse to work.

Its a little frustrating, as its difficult to pinpoint a consistent feature that always fails

But since I find Calais more useful, I’ll disable simple tags, and only activate if I need to organise my tags (which I actually don’t need to use much)

WordPress calais pluging gives: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected

Computer Aid Posted on by

I recently updated my blog to wordpress 2.5

While I was working on it, I took a look at various plugings available, and I thought I’d try WP Calais Archive Tagger and WP Calais Auto Tagger.

As soon as I tried to activate them, they immediately gave errors:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected xxxxxxx

where xxxxxxx indicates lots of technical info 🙂

I figured I’d send Dan Grossman an email, asking for advice.

To his credit, he quickly replied, indicating it was a problem with running PHP5 code in a PHP4 environment, and suggested changing .htaccess, or a setting in the website control panel.

Since my cpanel, had no such setting, I did a bit of research, and found that I needed to add 1 line to the .htaccess file in the blog folder:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

Since I discovered that PHP5 can be very different from PHP4, I also double checked all the existing plugins, and the blog in general.

in the end, everything worked well, with no compatibility problems anywhere.