schestowitz

Have a look here. I think someone identified a possible cause.

Let’s try to isolate the issue. Flash will not be broken when embedded in WordPress. WordPress seems irrelevant here because, provided you included a valid <element> in a certain (need be valid) position in your blog, the Flash object will do its thing. it will work independently and regardless of WordPress and perhaps even regardless of the browser, which only allocates a position for Flash objects.

I suggest that you recheck the markup. Also, rather then opening an SWF file in your browser, begin by embedding it in a simple static HTML page. Once it works, graft it onto the right WordPress template and ensure it all validates. Hope it helps…

As an initiative to follow my suggestion: if you choose to stick with safe mode and cannot build directories, consider this 7KB ZIP archive: http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/upload_dirs.zip

upload the directories within to <wp_installation_dir>/wp-content/

When decompressing and uploading, directories might preserve permission 777, but I think some platforms/programs alter permissions (downwards) in the process. I should stress that you should *MERGE*, not overwrite when uploading, or else you might lose existing files

Note: I was previously mistaken to think that there was a directory level for days of the month

@mushu, the OP used index.php all along in the permlinks structure. I have no idea what else to suggest, but it seems like the server software s/he runs might be the culprit. I could be very wrong though.

The only thing I can suggest is that you contact the host (Yahoo) as I can’t believe low speed is attributed to them. Perhaps a sheer amount of blog posts is causing something to slow down considerably.

As you can, in principle, reach anything you wish *eventually*, that suggests there are no errors. Have you tried from a different location/computer? I suppose this behaviour only applies to the dashboard and not the public side of the blog.

You could run a script to create the all the directories you will ever need instead. I won’t manage to find the pseudo-code I wrote before, but you could create directories for years, put all month within each of these and then dates. A simple script can do all of this. If you don’t run the script on the server, you could run it locally and then upload all the directories via FTP.

@podz – would it be useful if I created a sort of directory structure ‘template’ and zipped it? People with such limitation can uncompress it and upload… I think this would be handy.

You could either redirect by using the header in the file/s. Example here:

http://www.billstclair.com/html-redirect.html

You could also use a server redirect. Your host may have a front-end like cPanel to simplify the creation of a re-direction.

@miklb, maybe the OP wants to migrate.

I think that the scheduled downtime gives a clue, but whether it’s a positive sign or a negative sign — well, that’s yet to be discovered. It’s too early to Slashdot anything.