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Does your host use CPANEL? If so, log in to cpanel usually http://www.mysite.com/cpanel

Enter username and password for your site

Scroll down to software / services and look for PHP Config

Click it

Select PHP5 (Single php.ini) option

Click save changes on the bottom.

Now, manually FTP (I like Filezilla) into your site and look for php.ini (usually in public_html folder). Download the file to your computer so you can edit it. Using a text editor (I prefer Notepad++) locate the following by using find:

memory_limit = 48M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (10MB)

Change the value to at least 32M and your scripts should start executing more properly.

Finally, make sure wp-content/upgrade and all sub folders and files have at least 755 permissions using CHMOD (If using filezilla, right click on folder, choose permissions, type in 755 in numeric value, select recurse into subdirectories, click OK).

Can you FTP into your site?

If so, FTP in to your site (I recommend Filezilla) and navigate to

public_html>mysite>blog>wp-content>plugins>simple-tags

Delete that folder (simple-tags) and all files in it.

This will remove the plugin, and you should be able to get rid of the error.

If your blog is on your main site, you use http://www.mysite.com/wp-mail.php
If your blog is in a sub folder, you use http://www.mysite.com/blog/wp-mail.php
* replace ‘blog’ with whatever the folder’s name is.

Also, make sure you are sending the e-mail from an account in your users with editor permissions. Example:
Go to Users > Add new…
Call the user Me at work, or Me going mobile, etc…
Add your Name to the First and Last blocks
This is the important part!!!!! type in the e-mail address you want to send from!
Make this user an editor or admin

Now, send an email from the e-mail account of the user you just added to your secret e-mail address you set up on the writing page (Settings…writing).
Run the wp-mail.php script by typing the script path into your browser.

If your post came out funky looking, be sure to send only plain text.

If your post came over in a pending status, you sent it from an e-mail account that is not an editor or admin on your blog.

I’d recommend setting the wp-mail.php script in the footer of your theme as explained in the Codex help page for sending via e-mail. Put the iframe in just before </body>.

Happy posting!

Make sure you add a user under Users…Add new… With the e-mail address you are trying to send from.

Example:

If you are trying to post to your blog using a gmail account named thisisatestemailaccount@gmail.com then you need to create a new user in your blog with an email address of thisisatestemailaccount@gmail.com. Make sure he is an editor and then send an email from thisisatestemailaccount@gmail.com to thisismysupersecretemailaccount@gmail.com

Fill in the Subject and the Body. Send in plain text, otherwise the post gets all garbled up.

Then go to your wp-mail.php file and run it (or add the iframe as discussed in the codex to the footer).

Happy posting!