Archive for March 27th, 2008



Wordpress 2.5 RC2 and CoppermineSC

Update: The plugin author, Brad, has fixed this issue and has released an updated version.

If you don’t already know Wordpress 2.5 RC2 is out now. I’m now using it but I had a major issue with one plugin: CoppermineSC. This plugin allows me to tie my Coppermine photo gallery into my Wordpress blog. When activated it broke all my other plugins and WP functions. I really can’t run my sites without this plugin so it was imperative that found a solution to this problem. After several days of fretting and research I’ve solved the problem.

When mysql_connect() is called more than once with the same host, user, and password then the connection becomes shared. Wordpress makes the DB connection once and then …read more »