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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countThey said they merely pass back the number of comments they carry for any given site. Their counts are the ones reflected in the Comments headers, which are correct. The only place I’m seeing issues is in the new elements of the latest WP update, which I am surmising just doesn’t get along with my platform for some reason.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countSigh.Nope. Still says 9. 🙁
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countGood call. No, I haven’t done that. I’ll give it a try.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countI gave that some thought, and that’s why, as I said above, I tried disabling it and then fully removing it entirely, both with no effect on the problem.
Perhaps there’s something in the server environment the latest WP rev doesn’t like. I run CentOS with a VirtualMin front end on it (I am my ISP). The WP counts in terms of the comments page headers all show the right numbers, it only hoses them on the new Admin toolbar. And it highlights the comment count balloon on the Post List pages showing an accurate 0 (zero) for a count while the mouseover claims 1 comment waiting.
Whatever it is, the update shares at least half the responsibility for it, with the OS environment possibly taking the other half. WP quality checkers can’t try every possible environment, only the most common ones. So that’s how I’m going to look at this. As I repeat, it’s no big deal, it just makes a feature I don’t need act inappropriately. It doesn’t hurt anything.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countAh! Okay. 🙂 Admin toolbar it is.
But no, that doesn’t help. In fact, I just did a computer cleanup with Ace Utilities and TweakNow, which cleans up the browser cache among many other things. This miscount follows through all maintenance and multiple reboots. It started with a count of 1 right off the bat, and continues to climb. It now reads 9.
I use IntenseDebate for comments, by the way. I first disabled, and then uninstalled it to see if the count remained. It did. I have searched through every page of my comments, but I cannot find an unapproved comments, regardless of which view I use. There are no unapproved comments or comments awaiting moderation. Yet the count says there is.
As I said, it doesn’t appear to interfere with the operation in any way. It just sits there, as do the highlighted ‘talk’ balloons in the All Posts list. I can live with it but I’m curious about the cause.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Pending Comments gives wrong countThe banner that goes across the top of the screen when logged in as admin and appears on all screens. Sorry, I should have been more specific. Perhaps I should have called it a theme independent menu bar.
Left to right it contains the WP logo, site name, comments pending, + New, username and search icon.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: I don't like the new toolbar and admin navigationI’m not so thrilled either. In my toolbar it says that I have three comments when I don’t, and the new layout actually makes things more difficult with a menu system that is anything but handy. Also, using Scribefire in Chrome, my very first post to 3.3 ended up suddenly formatted to run across the screen, right through my sidebars and off the window. I had to go and update the post with WordPress so that it would flow with proper wraparound. Sort of defeats the purpose. Akismet is now also reporting that I have spam comments in the queue, but I’m darned if I can find them.
I’m getting very shy about updates in general. Whether they are for my phone, my web browser, my mail client or WordPress, updates are screwing me up a lot more than they are helping me. They’re turning me into a technological Ebeneezer Scrooge: Bah! Humbug!
I feel a bit bad having dark thoughts about software that has served me faithfully and for free for a decade or more, but I honestly feel that the recent updates have done me more harm than good all across the board.
I have had the same issue with all of the same conditions, and now I just get a long pause before I get an internal server error. Something changed when I updated to version 1.5.7 and I have not been able to update since, instead manually updating my database to keep abreast. I have looked for some way to roll back to the previous version to see if the builtin update will work again, but cannot find a way to do that. Are older versions available, and if so, how do I get to them?
Yes, ever since the last update of the Visitor Maps plugin itself, I have not been able to update the map database. I have had to go to MaxMind then download and copy the updated file into place.