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This took me several hours of my time so I’m posting it for posterity. Like many people, I began getting these errors when loading my blog. In most cases, this indicates a memory leak in a plugin. I upped the memory limit in my wp-settings.php for a while but my blog became incredibly slow. I [...]

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Trying to upgrade automatically from wordpress 2.8.0 to 2.8.1 just cost me a couple hours. I got the dreaded white screen of death after the upgrade. The process for trying to figure out WTF causes this sucks. Here’s what I tried for solutions:

Move the wp-content/plugins directory in case there was a plugin incompatibility
Disable the plugins [...]

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If you are one of the few people who subscribes to this blog you may have noticed all the duplicate posts today. This is due to my own idiocy. I screwed something up and had to restore from a backup (lost one week, but only a couple actual posts).
Also after upgrading to wordpress 2.5, I [...]

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Get an MD5 hash of your password.

Visit MD5 Hasher (http://epleweb.com/md5/), or…
Create a key with Python. or…
On Unix: echo -n <password> | md5sum

“mysql -u root -p” (log in to MySQL)
enter your mysql password
“use (name-of-database)” (select WordPress database)
“show tables;” (you’re looking for a table name with “users” at the end)
“SELECT ID, user_login, user_pass FROM (name-of-table-you-found)” [...]

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