2.9 Schedule Posts “missed”

Thank god for wordpress community forums.

Someone else suggested i should:

Manually upload the 2.9 files using ftp? Everything except your wp-config.php file and the wp-content folder.

And it worked 😀

Website is back live and using 2.9 :D:D:D – http://www.visitlocal.co.uk.

Thanks for everyone’s responses, highly appreciate it.

Would love to donate somehow.

Ta-dah. 2.5 hours later and…

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-stop-gap.patch

The final results are in, and it looks like a last-minute change to the WordPress 2.9 package stepped on a very obscure “feature” of the PHP cURL library. Those goodies are implemented in the packaged file named wp-includes/http.php.

This patch is waiting for core approval now, but I wanted to put it up here in case anyone needs an alternative to the stop-gap solution from earlier tonight.

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11505/ticket-11505-full.patch

Everyone give a big happy Thank You to fellow blogger and forum member ptmccain who tolerated my intrusions on his server for the better part of the evening to get this figured out.

Hi ryancan123, the linked file is in standard diff format. It’s not really intended for end users. Eventually you will need to replace the http.php file I mentioned. As I am not a WordPress developer, I don’t get to update the official files. 😉

If you get that far then you’re doing well, yes 🙂

That’s the only file covered by the patch. I’m not making any promises because there are other unfixed bugs out there.

Re-posted to: http://dd32.id.au/2009/12/21/a-call-to-arms/

I’d like to use this as an example to all here, Why WordPress needs your help. No, I’m not talking about Coding help specifically, I’m talking about Testing. WordPress requires that users test the product throughout the development period.

WordPress is an open source application written by hundreds of contributors. While those hundreds probably use the Development version of WordPress every day, They do not use the same webhost as you, nor do they have the same theme, nor do they have the same requirements, They use different functions of WordPress than you.

During The beta and RC stages, thousands of people download and test, These testers are end users like you, In order to prevent these bugs getting into a released product, It requires that users actually take part in the developement of WordPress and report the bugs encountered.

Testing WordPress is not just something that Developers should do. If you use WordPress and enjoy using it, Please take some time once every few months to test WordPress, Its announced on the Dev blog when Beta’s are available, On a default install of WordPress, The Dashboard should have a RSS feed mentioning the releases too.

So please, For 3.0, When a Beta is released (Theres generally ~2-3 weeks of beta, with 2-3 beta’s from my quick recolection) Install it on your website, It doesnt have to be your main one, it can be in a subdirectory (ie. your usual one at http://my-site.com/ and the test at http://my-site.com/testing/), and test that things works ok for you, and your plugins, This does take an hour out of your time, and i realise not everyone can afford it, But it may spare you 2-3 hours of your time, when after a release, a bug that affects you is found, that a Developer had not noticed.

WordPress requires your input, Whilst I agree there are some downfalls in reporting bugs sometimes (Please do not flame me with related messages here, I’m not after that, This is mearly a request for more contributions) overall, your contributions would be greatly appreciated by all.

In order to make it easier to test Beta’s and nightly versions, Westi wrote this great plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/ It allows you to use the inbuilt upgrader to upgrade to a beta, to make it easier for you, to be involved with the project you love using.