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> but seeing as how the dashboard problems of everyone here haven’t seemed to garner much interest from the WP powers-that-be, I’m guessing the news feed isn’t all that important
🙂 I think someone should pay attention to user requirements.
In the numerous feedback I received on the Dashboard every user is 100% in favor of trimming it down.
I believe in proactively seeking content, rather than something pushed to me. If I feel the need of certain feeds, I will subscribe it in my aggregator. That is why I hacked it up immediately I saw it.
Recently I tried the Dashboard shipped with 1.5.1.2 and as you also know it is hopelessly broken.
Sorry, here’s the last XML that appears:
<wfw:commentRSS>http://wordpress.org/development/2005/04/popular-science/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
</item>
<item>
<title>WordPress Hosting</title>
<link>http://wordpress.org/development/2005/04/wordpress-hosting/</link>
<comments>http://wordpress.org/development/2005/04/wordpress-hosting/#comments</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 00:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Development</category>
<guid>http://wordpress.org/development/2005/04/wordpress-hosting/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It seems like every few days a post comes up on the support forums about hosting — people asking for recommendations, talking about problems, or sharing advice. Where your blog lives is really central to your WordPress experience, and for a long time we’ve wanted to highlight some excellent resources to consider next time you’re […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[ It seems like every few days a post comes up on the support forums about hosting — people asking for recommendations, talking about problems, or sharing advice. Where your blog lives is really central to your WordPress experience, and for a long time we’ve wanted to highlight some excellent resources to consider next time you’re considering a web host. On our new web hosting page we try to do just that, pointing you in the direction of some people we think are swell. Better yet, some of the hosts on that page donate back to WordPress, so you can support WordPress by patronizing them. There is more information about everything on the web host page, including a place to send feedback if you have any. Happy hosting!
]]></content:encoded>
<wfw:commentRSS>http://wordpress.org/development/2005/04/wordpress-hosting/feed/</wfw:commentRSS>
</item>
revbob – I’m not sure of what the posting is about.
The issue is being worked on.
And here’s the first XML that appears (in $source):
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<!– generator=”wordpress/1.6-ALPHA-do-not-use” –>
<rss version=”2.0″
xmlns:content=”http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”
xmlns:wfw=”http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/”
xmlns:dc=”http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/”
>
<channel>
OK, so y’all know something is amiss with the dashboard page, and the problem seems to arise when PHP’s XML parser tries to parse the RSS we’re getting from the WP site?
OK. Btw, it worked for a while last night.
I’m having issues with my Dashboard. It shows the last three entries in the WordPress Development Blog, it shows the Latest Activity box, complete with Posts, Comments, and Blog Stats, but then nothing. No links to all the developers’ blogs, no WordPress logo, no version number.
The only thing I can think of is that my provider (PowWeb) upgraded its (my) PHP a few days ago. I read about some temporary but catastrophic problems people came across on this board, but I’m just experiencing this minor issue.
I’ve never made any changes to /wp-admin/index.php, so I tried (deleting and) uploading it again, but the result is the same.
I’m having the same thing happen on my blog (on a non-PowWeb-hosted site). My guess is it’s a glitch in the feed, similar to what happened a month or so ago, and that Podz’n’co are busily knitting it back together.
Everything is normal today.
Why would a problem with the feed break everything from that point down on the page (ie, the version number, the WP logo, my saved posts)?
logicbus: The problem the past couple of days was with the feed from planet.wordpress.org. This unfortunately was returing invalid contents which the RSS parser used by wordpress for the dashboard (Magpie) was having trouble parsing. This causes the dashboard to hang as the I think the failed feed is re-requested every time.
westi
