Wordpress 2.5 Fatal Error wp_register_sidebar_widget

This might be a bug for the new Wordpress 2.5 or a bug in the themes of Wordpress 2.5. So if you’re a Malaysia Wordpress theme designer, take special note of this Wordpress fatal error. I experienced this error only after activating a new Wordpress theme. And it wasn’t right after activation. It was when I wanted to access the Dashboard from the blog.

When I clicked back to the Dashboard, I was greeted by this scary fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /path-to-blog/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31

Thankfully, there was already a solution online at the Wordpress support. But the solution posted there came from another person; Tom Raftery. His research pointed him to another article relating to how the new K2 theme breaks Wordpress 2.5.

And, apparently the cause of this Wordpress fatal error:

…is because K2 turns off WordPress widgets in favour of its own widget manager and as 2.5 has started to widgetize the Dashboard, you get this error.

Which is why I would advise all Malaysia Wordpress theme designers to take this down. Just in case you’re designing based on K2, or having face this Wordpress 2.5 fatal error; call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget().

Posted by Danny Foo on April 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Design | 5 Comments | View blog reactions 

How to Win Deal or No Deal in Malaysia?

Technically, this is suppose to be a secret. So I’m only going to share limited information about this. It’s great publicity for NTV7 and the show that I’m writing this but in case there are any corporate policies which hauls my *ss to court, I’m keeping mums on certain secrets. Obviously, I want to win Deal or No Deal in Malaysia too.

Alright. The secret is…I’m going to be one of the nervous, cold sweating, innocent looking, spaced out, smiling contestants in the Q & A part of the show. You know the ones where 6 contestants are like competing to stand on the main podium, stare at the Revlon models, ask a bag and freak out knowing it’s the RM100,000 bag? Yeah, I was selected to be one of the contestants.

So if you know how to win deal or no deal in Malaysia, let me know in the comments.

Posted by Danny Foo on April 25, 2008 | Filed Under My Life | 10 Comments | View blog reactions 

What is Social Media Marketing?

You tell me. Seriously, I’ve heard of it murmured all over the place now. However, I don’t really know what is social media marketing (SMM) in detail, how it works and what are the results from it. As far as I know, social media marketing is about utilizing social networks or online applications (and communities) for marketing. That made sense, right?

For example; using social media networks like Facebook, MySpace and etc to spread word of your marketing campaign on a product or launch. From the online application view, it could be using tools like Digg or StumbleUpon and etc. The whole gist of it is using online channels to do Internet marketing. Even creating a self-promotional video and publishing it on YouTube is part of social media marketing.

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Posted by Danny Foo on April 20, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Marketing | 1 Comment | View blog reactions 

Malaysia Conman Targets Malaysia Designers

Earlier today, some guy calling himself ‘Andrew’ called me posing as a client. He requested for the mobile number of graphic designers I knew; specifically freelance designers. The alibi he shared with me was he is working with an international company and his colleague (Madam Tan) passed him my number. Then, he told me the company wants to design catalogs and brochures. Even had the cheek to tell me they had a RM10,000 budget.

His reason of not being able to tell me the company name is in the past, someone from a large agency leaked their product idea out and it was copied. Carelessly believing his story, I passed him 3 mobile numbers of people I knew. Out of the 3 people, two run small graphic design companies. And he met with one of them.

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Posted by Danny Foo on April 17, 2008 | Filed Under News | 6 Comments | View blog reactions 

Malaysia Web Accessibility Conference

Last week I attended the web accessibility conference organized by the National Council For the Blind Malaysia (NCBM). This was one conference I didn’t have to second think of attending. Simply because one of the invited speakers was from the World Wide Web Consortium; better known as W3C to us Malaysia web standardistas.

And her name was; Shawn Henry. She’s the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Outreach Coordinator at W3C. Besides her, I would also like to acknowledge Silatul Rahim from the Malaysian Association of the Blind (MAB). He demonstrated how blind users use a screen reader and…he is blind as well.

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Posted by Danny Foo on April 10, 2008 | Filed Under My Work | 5 Comments | View blog reactions 

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    author's photoHello and welcome to Websites Made Simple. I'm Danny Foo and this is my Malaysia web design blog. I manage and co-founded a small Malaysia web design and development team; Simpleet Solutions.