But for this post, I found after doing some research on the required extensions to be loaded for wordpress. >> php_exif.dll being one of those.  But it was still commented out in my php.ini.  So the natural thing to do is uncomment and restart your services, but it crashed with the error below. EEK!  Hmmm.  The next thing is to check the directory for the dll. YUP! It was there.

Warning:
PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘Path://todrive/ext/php_exif ‘ – The specified module could not be found.

The specified module could not be found.

Then I stumbled upon this post, iis-aid.com/php_exif.dll , which stated the php_mbstring.dll extension needed to load before the the php_exif.dll loads.  Inside my php.ini file the php_exif.dll was before the php_mbstring.dll in the list of extensions in my php.ini file.  Does that make sense? Why is that coming before the other if it can’t be loaded that way? Maybe it is a Windows thing. I’m guessing someone will comment on there theory or possibly even a logical reasoning behind.

Oh yeah, so for the fix you just need to move your php_mbstring.dll above your php_exif.dll in the php.ini file extensions list and make sure they are both uncommented, then restart your server.

This worked for me to get rid of this error. Probably not the only fix for this error, but it worked for me.  If you found this post and have had similar errors but this didn’t fix it, please share your findings.

Thanks!

So today a client’s wordpress theme was having these »’s show up next to all their bullets in Firefox, but not in IE.  I used firebug but the css was not showing up for what was creating it. Very strange.
» is an angle quotation mark (right), and can be displayed using » or » .  So naturally I searched my css and all theme files for these HTML snippets.  I found a bunch but none I needed.  After doing some online searching I found that in some themes they use the li:before to place, a not so commonly used css element (firebug didn’t even display it), the symbol there.  But the weird thing is the css.  Check it out below, if you find this in your css anywhere, just remove it or comment it out and it will remove the arrows.

.entry ul li:before, #sidebar ul ul li:before {
content: "\00BB \0020";
}

Error in Apache Log:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] WordPress database error Table ‘wp_categories’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT cat_name FROM wp_categories WHERE category_nicename = ‘12′ made by require, require_once, include, get_header, locate_template, load_template, require_once, breadcrumbs, referer:

I edited the core files to no end.  Of course the last thing I checked after four to five hours of hacking was the breadcrumb plugin by Daniel R Naylor.  Because I was sending custom URL Params it was trying to grab the category out of a depecrated table.

FIX: Either use another breadrumb if your going to be using custom URL Parameters or edit the current one.
– comment out this entire elseif statment:
elseif ( !empty($category_name)

That keeps it from looking for that table and will end the errors.

Here it is:

<?php query_posts('p=11');  /* assign page id */ ?>
<?php if(have_posts) : the_post(); /* start the loop */ ?>
<?php the_content(); /* prints the content */ ?>
<?php endif; /* end the loop */  ?>

REMEMBER THIS IS FOR POSTs and NOT PAGEs

Here it is:

<?php query_posts('page_id=11');  /* assign page id */ ?>
<?php if(have_posts) : the_post(); /* start the loop */ ?>
<?php the_content(); /* prints the content */ ?>
<?php endif; /* end the loop */  ?>

REMEMBER THIS IS FOR PAGEs and NOT POSTS