timbunch

So, I hacked the method to obtain the user slug by capturing the URI.

$slug = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$slug = str_replace('author', '', $slug);
$slug = str_replace('/', '', $slug);

I plugged this into the $args variable for the wp query.

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'posts',
    'posts_per_page' => 10,
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'author',
            'field' => 'slug',
	    'terms' => $slug,
        ),
    ),
);

HTTPS is now working, it’s safe to activate Jetpack.

And now, I have figured out precisely what is wrong. My site runs in SSL, and when it is calling the JS files from wp.com, it is attempting to call them via SSL. The calls to the files time out and fail. When I switch to http, the files load just fine.

There are two ways to solve this.

1. Switch everything to SSL and stop using this plugin (which I did)
2. Switch to a different product or web host (which I am making plans to do)

Rackspace Cloud Sites has been too unstable for us and we cannot afford to go down for hours at a time, or deal with configuration issues with their poor SSL support.

I could provide some temporary access to the backend of the dev site. What’s your email address?

It only occurs on pages where HTTPS is forced. HTTP pages pull up fine while the HTTPS pages give me a 502.