Title: endolith's Replies | WordPress.org --- # endolith [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 30 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [Anarchy Media Player AMP 2.5 Broken in 2.7?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anarchy-media-player-amp-25-broken-in-27/) * [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anarchy-media-player-amp-25-broken-in-27/#post-938952) * I just tried installing it on 2.8.5 and it’s not working for me, either. All my other plugins work fine, but when I try to activate AMP, it says * > Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. > Warning: require_once(/home/username/public_html/wp-config.php) [function.require- > once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/ > wordpress/wp-content/plugins/anarchy_media/anarchy_media_player.php on line > 20 > Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/ > username/public_html/wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/ > lib/php’) in /home/username/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/anarchy_media/ > anarchy_media_player.php on line 20 * Lines 19 and 20 of anarchy_media_player.php: * ``` require_once str_replace($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) . '/wp-config.php'; ``` * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Firefox 3 Quick Find Apostrophe Bug in WordPress 2.5.1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-3-quick-find-apostrophe-bug-in-wordpress-251/) * [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/firefox-3-quick-find-apostrophe-bug-in-wordpress-251/#post-795030) * This is a Firefox problem, not a WordPress problem. I have it in any rich-text field (WordPress, Gmail, Google Docs) on my work computer (Windows XP), but not on my home computer (Ubuntu). You can’t type an apostrophe ‘ or a slash / because it brings up the find tools. * You solved it by uninstalling and re-installing Firefox? This did not work for me. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Tall skinny images resized to 300px tall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/#post-799349) * This fixed it. * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/171424?replies=12#post-761063](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/171424?replies=12#post-761063) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Tall skinny images resized to 300px tall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/#post-799345) * > The image is actually resized into the medium and thumbnail sizes at the time > that you actually upload it. * Ok. It should really create the thumbnail and medium size images when you ask it to create them (and allow other sizes on demand), but I understand why it wasn’t working. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Tall skinny images resized to 300px tall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/#post-799344) * And now when I try to re-upload them I get an “HTTP error” * Crunching… file1.png DismissAn error occurred in the upload. Please try again later. Crunching… file2.png DismissAn error occurred in the upload. Please try again later. * I am really getting sick of WordPress and all its bugs. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Tall skinny images resized to 300px tall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tall-skinny-images-resized-to-300px-tall/#post-799341) * No, the original images are 485px × 1360px and 485px × 454px. In “medium” size( _Add an Image_ in the rich text editor, _Medium_ setting, as opposed to _Thumbnail_ or _Full size_), the images are squished to fit in a 300px × 300px box (106px × 300px and 300px × 280px, respectively). I would rather see 300px × 841px for the first one (constrained only in the width dimension), but trying to change this setting does nothing. * Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) In reply to: [Please give us the option to turn of smart “quotes”](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-give-us-the-option-to-turn-of-smart-quotes/) * [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-give-us-the-option-to-turn-of-smart-quotes/#post-591350) * Smart quotes are great, and should be on by default, but they should be turned off within code and pre tags, and there should be a tag for turning them off in other situations. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790869) * Note: When backing up your website as HTML, don’t click “HTML complete”. Just“ HTML”, or it overwrites your file paths. :'( * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790868) * …. and most of the posts survived. Some were truncated, but whatever, I made backups. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790867) * Alright screw it. I only have 12 posts, so I backed up the SQL database, backed up the actual content of the posts by saving them as HTML and copy-pasting them into Google Docs, went through and manually removed any non-ascii characters I could find in the hopes that they will convert without corruption, and now I’m going to use the plugin even though it’s only for old versions of WordPress. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790866) * Oh wait. phpinfo has `mbstring.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1`, which is Latin1. Is that the fundamental problem? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790865) * I tried this plugin on my test installation: * [http://g30rg3x.com/utf8-database-converter/](http://g30rg3x.com/utf8-database-converter/) * but any posts with special characters were destroyed. Are there any other solutions for this? Are there alternatives to WordPress that don’t have problems like this? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/page/2/#post-790861) * > In a default installation you should have these two lines in your config.php > define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); > define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”); * I do, in wp-config.php * > define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); > define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”); * > Your DataBase and all your tables should be utf8_general_ci and this is crucial > for all of us using other than latin characters. Backup and then read the link > i provided you. * They are not, though, and they are not configured this way by default. Why not? My brand new installation is all latin1_swedish_ci. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/#post-790819) * > Go into the wordpress database for the one that you know you have entered > multibyte characters and look at the wp_posts table. > Are they ???? or actual characters? * They are question marks in the phpMyAdmin display of wp_posts. * > DO you have access to a phpinfo() page? > If you do have access to a phpinfo page do a search for “mbstring”.. “Multibyte > Support” must be enabled. * ‘–enable-mbstring’ ‘–enable-mbstr-enc-trans’ ‘–enable-mbregex’ * mbstring Multibyte Support enabled Japanese support enabled Simplified chinese support enabled Traditional chinese support enabled Korean support enabled Russian support enabled Multibyte (japanese) regex support enabled * mbstring.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1 * > I think the problem is collation. You should have all your DB utf8_general_ci. * They are apparently set as latin1_swedish_ci by default? * > PS: That might happened because you installed WP via Fantastico. * Ah, ok. * > So also check you config.php * What am I checking for? * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [Special characters converted to question marks on save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/) * Thread Starter [endolith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/) * (@endolith) * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-converted-to-question-marks-on-save/#post-790793) * I can access phpMyAdmin, which shows my WordPress databases? I have three installations, including a brand new one, and it lists _wrdp1, _wrdp2, _wrdp3. Inside are “Tables” with “Collations”, some of which are utf8_general_ci and some of which are latin1_swedish_ci. On the brand new installation, they are all latin1_swedish_ci. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 30 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replies/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/users/endolith/replies/page/2/?output_format=md)