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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Removing dashboard for subscriberslamisto,
Not to stat the obvious, but you are going to either do one of two things:
1. Find a plugin that accomplishes this task for you or
2. Start hacking some of the core files till you get the result you wantI manage a WordPress site that my company will soon use as a Knowledge Base for our customers. I’ve had to manually edit a lot of stuff in order to get the approval of our Marketing and Legal departments (also known and the 6th and 7th circles of hell around here). It can be done. It’s very time consuming if you are just starting out with WordPress, and it could drive you to drinking and regretting you ever stated the project in the first place. However, it’s worth it in the end.
My recommendation is to try to find a suitable plugin for you situation from the http://www.wordpress.org/extened area, because then you don’t have to worry about maintaining your own WordPress trunk that will get jacked up every time an update is released (because, let’s be honest, if you modify WordPress to do something it was not intended to do there is a cost). I was trying to accomplish this very thing, but was not able to use any plugins because they did not provide the “Look and Feel” the powers that be in my company wanted to have. But they are out there.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Recovering old SQL dumpI’m guessing you will want to follow some of the suggestions in the Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup post that relate to using something like phpMyAdmin.
As a person who is really new to SQL, and has enough knowledge to be dangerous, I find that phpMyAdmin has been essential to backing up and restoring my WordPress databases. I currently manage three different blogs from the same database, and it lets me back the all up with one process.
If you have a dump of the DB, you may be able to update from that, but be careful!!! If you are trying to merge the data, you will need to make sure you add the contents of the old dump is such a way that you do not delete the current content when it runs into identical post ID numbers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Image Uploader 2.6 thumbnails not showing after uploadI too have the same issue. I’ve found that if insert an image, and then view the HMTL code that it WordPress generates automatically, the
<img src=>element is left with a url of ” instead of the path to the file. Also, my thumbnails in my media gallery are loading as blank white pages, not thumbnails.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade to 2.6.2 caused Media Library to breakI must be completely in competent, because the same issue resurfaced for me and I’m not sure why. I tried uploading the functions.php file that fixed the issue before, but nothing changed this time. I still have no thumbnails displayed in my media library, and my images are being inserted into posts with no source designated for the <img src=”> tag.
Here is what I have tried so far to get back up and running.
1. Deleted wordpress install dir, and unziped a fresh download of 2.6.2
2. Copied my /wp-content folder, as well as my wp-config.php file to the new install folder
(Result was that Blog came back up just fine, but if I clicked on Manage->Media Library, I still no thumbnails displaying, but all 241 images still listed correctly. If I clicked on the white place holder that was inserted instead of my thumbnail, I took me to the correct image just like it should have.)3. Just to be sure, removed all the tables from the SQL database (Via MyPhpAdmin) and re-imported from a back up file.
(Same result as stated above)4. Uploaded the functions.php to my /wp-includes folder, this is the step that fixed the issue before.
(No change)5. Explicitly set the full URL path to the /wp-contents/uploads folder, even though I am using the default location.
(No Change).6. Deleted all the contents of my /wp-contents/uploads/js_cache folder, and reset my browser cache and cookies (twice just to be sure).
7. All plugins are disabled
Did I miss anything? Is there something else I should be looking at? I really don’t want to have to upload all 241 images back into my blog manually.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade to 2.6.2 caused Media Library to breakFound the fix in the following forum post:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999?replies=1The post addressed the problem in question 8, answer b). This is a know issue that was supposed to be fixed in 2.6.1 and required me to grab an updated version of the “functions.php” file and upload it to my “wp-includes” folder. File can be downloaded here.
I hope someone catches this little slip up, the post I found says that this functions.php file was supposed to be included in the 2.6.1 release, but it was not included the release that upgraded to. I know that I completely deleted the old wordpress directory I was using, uploaded the whole new set of files for 2.6.2, then copied my “wp-content” folder as well as my “wp-config.php” file from the old wordpres back up I had. So I know that entire “wp-includes” dir was from the new distribution. I could have save a lot of trouble if I had just downloaded the file from the get to, instead of assuming that the file has been rolled into the distribution.
I hope this thread helps anyone else out with similar issues.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: links show in blog, but disappear when viewed in archiveJust at thought, are you using the default WordPress archive widget, or are you using a plugin to display your archive. I’m running into a specious issue that sounds related, but it’s effecting my media library, not my archive links.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade to 2.6.2 caused Media Library to breakTo see screen shots of this issue, vist my personal blog where I put of the screen shots. I though it would be easier to understand if people could see what was happening.
http://trinity777.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/issues-with-upgrade-to-wordpress-262/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Thumbnails not generated in v2.6Wendyhouse,
I’m experiencing the exact same issue. Upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 seemed perfect at first, but then I started going back though my media library and saw that half my thumbnails were missing. I narrowed it down to the links being broken to the thumbnails for anything uploaded in 2.5, but anything uploaded in 2.6 still has their thumbnails. This, until updated from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2. I lost all my thumbnails again.If I try to add any of these files into a new post from the media library, just like you describe, word press only enter the HTML tag for the A REF, but not IMG SRC. The result is I get a blank image element(Showing correct alt text) that links to the correct file, but no file shown on the new post I just created. However, all old posts that contain that image work just fine because the HTML code created for them is still valid.
Is there a setting that get’s redirected other than the one in the Admin area under Setting -> Mic. for the upload dir?