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Fixed

Blaze — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:19:49 +0000

Things should be all ship-shape and bristol-fashion now (Well…with the exception of my personal site–which we purposely broke to see how things were breaking–and this blog–because the clients come first).

Part of the problem appears to be that a lot of the applications and themes being used aren’t coded properly, so the new stricter rules broke them. New installs of Gallery should work fine (if they don’t, please tell me!). However, there’s a bit of an issue with the Ap Vault version of WordPress. Plesk included a version that doesn’t like to play well with Plesk. I’ll be looking into this promptly. Installs by hand should work however. Until we can get this issue resolved with our software provider, feel free to let me know if you need a copy of WordPress installed. I can have one up and running usually within 12 hours (a whole lot sooner if you catch me when I’m not tied up in the office).

Some old WP themes won’t work. Their code contains a line that’s considered a security flaw.

If you run across any errors on your sites, please let us know so we can fix them promptly.

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Blaze

Wordpress problems

Blaze — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:34:46 +0000

I think I’ve found a temporary (if inelegant) fix for the problem of WordPress not showing up.

Go to your blog (or where your blog should be) and add “/wp-admin/” at the end of the url. So, you’ll have an address like this:

http://www.domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

You should see the login screen. Log in, go to the “presentation” tab. Select the “WordPress Classic” theme as your active theme. This seems to bring back most of the blogs.

Fixing things.

Blaze — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:11:38 +0000

We’re still working through the problems, but I’ll keep you up to date as much as possible.

Right now, subdomains aren’t working. I don’t believe that’s an issue for any of you, but if so, let me know.

If your WordPress blog isn’t working, FTP into your site, copy all your plugins to your computer, then delete them from the server. This should bring the blog back. Then, you can upload the plugins again and reactivate them. The only one we see a problem with is Live+Press. I’ve made note of this, and it will be looked into.

Gallery2 is still violating security rules in a number of places. Some times it works, some times it doesn’t. Please let me know if there’s anything wrong with your gallery. This will help us to track down the problem and fix it.

Some of these issues are extremely complex, and may take some time to fix. I will keep you up to date here on this blog.