Wordpress - Feedwordpress - Will not activate!

This was a bit of a problem. My site, which relies on FeedWordPress (fwp) for updates, had crashed. The only way to get the site back up was to disable all active plugins via the database (see my other posts), and then re-activate the plugins one-by-one to find the culprit. Turns out that the culprit was FeedWordPress. FeedWordPress does this when there are a LOT of links to check. Like my site. The only way to fix this quickly is to edit the database directly using the hosting control panel. DO NOT edit the RSS links using the inbuilt links editor - it will chop the end off the links, destroying them. It will chop the affiliate bits off the end.. 1. Get the ID of the link category that fwp is looking at. To find out, you need to know it's name. I called mine "FWP". Yours may be "Blogroll". Use the wordpress links editor, but DO NOT edit any links. Now look in the WP-Terms table, and find the record with that name. Make a note of the link_category_id. 2. You are also going to need an empty link category. Use the wordpress link category editor to create one, (I called mine "FWP-DUMMY") or just select an existing link category with no links in it. Note down the link_category_id. 3. Open the wp-options table and look for the feedwordpress_category record. It probably will not be on the first page.. Edit it. The number in there should be the link_category_id for your existing category. Change it to the number for the empty link category. Save it. 4. In Wordpress, activate FeedWordPress. It should work OK now. That's because it's looking at an empty category and has nothing to check. 5. Go back to the wp-options table, and change the feedwordpress category back to the original value. Save it. Feedwordpress is now up and running. Finally, make a note of the link-category_ids for the FWP category and the Empty category, so you won't have to mess about next time.

Digi Auto Links Plugin

I've taken the plunge and actually BOUGHT a plugin.
It's called DIGI AUTO LINKS, and what it does is use wordpress's pingback system to build links between my posts and related posts on other websites.
It's automated, and runs by a cron job.
It has the useful side-effect of adding loads of relevant tags to my posts, as well..

Right Now, you can get this great plugin for 66% discount, but I'm not sure for how long.. DIGI AUTO LINKS - DISCOUNT PRICE

So don't complain if you've already missed the discount..

Plugin changes.

Can't get "add-to-any" to play nice with "contextual related posts".
Discovered "efficient related posts" plugin due to this.

Replaced "add-to-any" with "simple social media" plugin. Nice. Needed a bit of a tweak, as it doesn't work straight out of the box (icons)

Replaced "contextual related posts" with "efficient related posts". This finds the related posts *when the post is submitted*, rather than *when the post is accessed* Speeds up page load.

Sites affected: www.supercars-for-sale.com and www.quirkycars.net

* Efficient related posts will take a LONG time to build the related links initially. BEWARE! after that, it's cushty..

Tidy-up

Modified the wp-ebay-posts background colour to match the post area background.
Also changed the heading and footer text color to be same as background: invisible! Excellent.