longtex

why be so sensitive? You picked ONE word out of two posts to try and admonish me for?? I use that term quite frequently and meant nothing by it — except to suggest that it might be a time saver.

Remind me to avoid your threads in the future. Geez.

First, it’s two words, not one. Second, that response was only part of my reply – and I notice you ignored the rest of it.

It’s not a matter of my being “sensitive” – it’s a matter of your attitude, as indicated by it… and as verified by your followup – it seems you think trying to find out WHY a problem occurs is a waste of time. And if that is indeed how you feel, you’re welcome to stay awaw… ‘S okay by me…

As far as the theme having nothing to do with the admin area, I don’t know that it’s strictly true. Themes do add options, and for all I know they may modify existing ones as well. The problem seems to be one of timing, since you can almost guarantee the error by writing a post, pausing long enough for it to “autosave” and then trying to save or publish it… pooof! Gone.

I have several WP blogs on two linux boxes, and I am fairly certain that it is only the one blog that demonstrates this error. However, as I said, if you don’t let it get the the “autosave”, everything’s fine and dandy.

I don’t suppose you have any insight on how to sh!itcan the autosave feature, do you?

On my problem blog, I found the line a few minutes before you posted, but on line 1259, not 1257. My wp-includes/functions.php is dated 5/12 at 1737:

$trans['update']['post'] = array(__('Are you sure you want to edit this post: "%s"?'), 'get_the_title');

Unfortunately, it’s not much help, yet, as it’s a line that’s just filling in an array of questions. Now… since you found that one so easily… where is that question used?

I’m looking for trans & update & post, but haven’t found it yet… perhaps I’m looking in the wrong way? I’m heading over to the js functions to look – unfortunately I’m not much of a hand with the linux utils, so I don’t know how to use anything but grep, and that not very well… it would be nice to have something like grep that will recurse subdirs… it might even be grep itself, huh?

Ah, so… never mind, then.

What I was looking for was something like the flag on the mail box. In rural Ammurrika, we have (or had) these little red flags on the sides of the mail box. In the really old days, the postman would flip the flag up when he left you some mail, so you could use your binocs to take a gander at the box and see if he’d left you any. Actually, it worked both ways – if you had outgoing mail, you’d put it in the box and flip the flag up, and the postman would stop and pick it up even if you had no incoming mail (and back when the post office hadn’t decided to charge Amex, AT&T, Chase Bank, WalMart and every other fncking advertiser in the universe only 7 cents for the same mail that cost you 41 cents, so you didn’t get “mail” EVERY day), so you could check to see if the flag had gone down… sort of a toggle switch, so to speak… and you didn’t have to walk a quarter mile to see if there was any mail.

I’m not absolutely certain this is progress.

Your mileage may vary.

This seems to highlight what seems to me to be a shortcoming of bbpress (this IS using bbpress, yes?) – namely, the lack of a way to tell if a thread is being examined at all… I am trying (without success) to recall another forum-type app in which there is NOT a “views” field on threads.

Which brings up another (apparently) missing element – “email me when there’s a reply”…

The assumption for this particular topic seems to be ignorance and apathy – nobody knows & nobody cares… which does mystify me a little…

One of my “hmmmm, let’s try THIS one” messages was something along the lines of “who’s using blogdesk or blogwriter?” I have to say, I was pretty surprised to see zero reposnse to that one, because I was pretty jazzed by the discovery of those apps, and there is after all a section devoted to the general topic of clients in the docs. I personally find the clients to be extremely interesting, at least for the specific project that led me to them, i.e. having multiple barely-computified personnel posting messages. As I mentioned in that particular thread, these are people who I feel would have a TERRIBLE time trying to navigate the admin stuff into authorship, but (as evidenced by a quick test) have no trouble at all clicking on the BlogDesk icon, entering a title, typing some content, attaching a file (text for now), and clicking on the “send” button… it’s close enough to email that they have no problem at all.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Apparently not. Hmmmm… well, never mind, then.