William Bowles
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Dashboard problemShane,
Done all that and my problems only started when I ‘upgraded’, first to 2.8.1 (abandoned that one) and then finally 2.8.2 as I figured they’d gotten the worst bugs out. how wrong can you be?The worst of it is trying to get some kind of response, I had a mess of RSS feeds installed that I know readers use and I also now have no Facebook or Twitter Feed, can’t install KB Advance RSS and the author has abandoned it!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Twitter Tools]Mucho problems with this plugin, not only does it regularly NOT function, it also messes with WordPress’s functions, for example, when I publish a post, I get an error message:
Sorry, login failed. Error message from Twitter:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to twitter.com:80 (Connection refused) in /home/creative/public_html/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 1142This immediately tells me that the plugin ain’t working.
The post doesn’t get published and I have to publish it again (it works 2nd time, without getting the error msg).
BTW, why don’t we have one forum for this plugin? It makes trying to get info almost impossible, and creating a new topic just adds to the mess.
Bill
Y’know, I find this way of getting help extremely frustrating. I acknowledge that there are a lot of wP users but even so, I’ve left msgs on this problem lots of times and our friend the moderator tells us,
“strange…I have 2 instances running on my test blog – 2.9-rare
http://blog.comeuphither.com/
as a test, I removed them – added them back without a problemWhich might be okay for him, esp. as he’s testing it on a version none of us possess but what about us?
Bill
PS: I have also tried almost every other alt. RSS plugin I could find and none of them work.
I just tried the standard rss widget and although the url works in Firefox (and Safari), when I installed it in the widget, it got the message that it couldn’t connect. So I assume that the problem lies with WP itself.
This is the URL: electronicIraq.net/news/rss.xml
So far, I’ve managed to get only two feeds working.
B
Same problem, only one widget available and you can’t load it anyway (this on WP 2.8.2). Infuriating! I had a stack of feeds loaded and have lost them all.
Apparently the author no longer supports it and the default RSS widget doesn’t appear to work with most of my feeds (can’t connect to …)
Bill
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove kinks from META?will do
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove kinks from META?Hi Michael,
Yeah but what am I looking for? I’m using the same theme as pre-2.8.1 and they didn’t show up in 2.7.1. I’m a php dummy but I’ll take a look in the meantime.Bill
Ok, found the following in the sidebar but do I delete/comment out all or some of it? (there are no other refs to comments.
<li id=”rss-links”>
<h3><?php _e(‘RSS Feeds’, ‘plaintxtblog’) ?></h3>- ” title=”<?php echo wp_specialchars(get_bloginfo(‘name’), 1) ?> RSS 2.0 Feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><?php _e(‘All posts’, ‘plaintxtblog’) ?>
- ” title=”<?php echo wp_specialchars(bloginfo(‘name’), 1) ?> Comments RSS 2.0 Feed” rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml”><?php _e(‘All comments’, ‘plaintxtblog’) ?>
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Relevanssi and PagesOkay, it seems to be working as advertized.
Bill
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Relevanssi and PagesMsaari:
I just upgraded to 2.8.1 and haven’t gotten around to upgrading Relevanssi yet (still trying to figure out why my RSS feeds aren’t working), but I’ll let you know how it goes.
Bill
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Relevanssi and PagesGot this error message after installing relevanssi:
[Sat Jul 11 07:00:16 2009] [error] [client 82.148.44.32] WordPress database
error Duplicate entry ‘the’ for key 1 for query IN
SERT INTO wp_relevanssi_stopwords (stopword) VALUES (‘the’) made by
activate_plugin, do_action, call_user_func_array, relevans
si_install, relevanssi_populate_stopwords, referer:BTW, still on 2.7.1
Bill
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I revert to 2.7.1?Well actually it was quite simple. If you have 2.7.1 just re-upload it (remove all the old files first!) and it worked perfectly except for all the links to pages which 2.8 turned off, so you might have to check that login/register/pages are all there.
Bill
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: How do I uninstall WP 2.8 an go back to 2.7.1I think the worst thing about the alleged upgrade is that most of the alleged improvements appear to be no more than cosmetic. For example, the ‘improvements’ to the Plugins page is a retrograde move back to something like it used to be. Difficult to read and with 2.8, instead of having active/inactive plugins grouped, they’re now all together. Clunky and time-consuming to use and difficult to read because of the awful color scheme.
Ditto with the Widgets page. The GUI is now cumbersome and offers no improvement whatsoever.
What is it with programmers? If it ain’t broke, why fix it? There was nothing wrong with the 2.7.x interface.
In any case, I solved the plethora of problems with 2.8 by rolling back to 2.7.1 as there were just so many problems with 2.8 inc. RSS feeds, Widgets etc.
Bill
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Admin and Login Links have disappearedSolved my problem by reverting to 2.7.1. Spending too much time farting around with this stuff.
Bill
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Admin and Login Links have disappearedOkay, just temp. renamed the plugins folder to see if it’s a plugin and no change at all.
B
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Admin and Login Links have disappearedOkay, checked the sidebar.php for the code and found this:
<?php if ( is_home() || is_paged() ) { ?>
<li id=”meta”>
<h3><?php _e(‘Meta’, ‘plaintxtblog’) ?></h3>-
<?php wp_register() ?>
- <?php wp_loginout() ?>
<?php wp_meta() // Do not remove; helps plugins work ?>
<?php } ?>
So it’s not the theme
B