WP HTTP Error

  • muffintop

    (@muffintop)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    On my dashboard I have errors related to WP HTTP Error:

    Wordpres Blog – RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: couldn’t connect to host
    Other WordPress news – RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: couldn’t connect to host

    This is an internal corporate site and not hosted externally.

    Do I need certain ports opening on our firewall?

    Thanks,

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  • flamenco

    (@flamenco)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,
    The Dashboard pulls in various material from “outside”. Usually this is nice to see, news, latest bugfixes and stuff. I’m pretty sure that’s all this message relates to.

    But if you can live with the error message, I wouldn’t worry about it. Corporate being corporate, though, I realize their might be whining from someone.

    I wonder if this would allow you to tweak that (I’ve not used it, though)
    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/adminimize/

    Good luck, Dave

    Thread Starter muffintop

    (@muffintop)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the response but being OCD I have to have these working for my sanity. Once they’re working, I can then think about turning them off 🙂

    Anyway, seem to be working this morning but instead of the error messages, they now say “This widget requires JavaScript.”
    Surely this is on by default in a browser or is it a wordpress thing?

    Thanks,

    flamenco

    (@flamenco)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Typically a browser does have Javascript turned on.

    BUT in a corporate intranet or other mass install, all sorts of restrictions may be there. Maybe someone who preceded you did a mass install with Javascript turned off, because of security concerns or the like.

    There were scads of internal business apps people made for the horrible IE6, for instance. So if these apps become crucial to the business, and they won’t work in newer IE or other browsers, they’re permanently stuck in the prehistoric era.

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