Waldo Jaquith
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Plugin: Podcasting] Player Doesn’t AppearI used wget to grab the SWF file, and that’s resolving (in the sense that I’m not getting a 404, but a bunch of binary data that I assume comprises the SWF contents). I’ve tried viewing the page using a handful of browsers (Safari, Camino, Firefox, and Opera), and none show the player. All will happily render Flash on the Adobe Flash page, so it’s not a problem with Flash. I tried using my home computer, and the same problem is present there. So I feel confident that this is a problem on the server end. Given that the SWF file is intact, it strikes me as likely that this is confined to WordPress or Podcasting, but that’s not necessarily so.
Nobody else has experienced this problem?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Export Fails (Too Large?)Or, alternatively, installing 2.2 on your new host, exporting your existing data with another tools as suggested, importing that data into your “new” 2.2 installation, and then updating that to 2.5?
That’s quite a clever idea. It’s not viable to upgrade my existing install to v2.5 — it would break horribly — but I’m entirely happy to break a duplicate install. I believe I’ll do just that. Thank you for that suggestion.
I don’t see what you are describing as a “bug” in WordPress, but rather as a limitation of your server/PHP installation (memory constraints).
I have no way of knowing that to be the problem. I speculate that it’s a result of the quantity of data exceeding what my server can handle, but I have no way of knowing that.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Export Fails (Too Large?)Well, I guess I’ll report this as a bug.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Export Fails (Too Large?)Because it strikes me as unlikely that v2.2 and v2.5 use precisely the same database structure. (If they do, I can just SELECT INTO the data from the v2.2 tables to the v2.5 tables, no exporting required.) If somebody could confirm for me that there are no meaningful differences between the two, I’m certainly game for that approach.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: OPML Import Does NothingFor the record, the problem turns out to be that WordPress doesn’t appear to support the xmlUrl OPML tag, only the htmlUrl tag. So WordPress happily went through all 216 entries in the OPML file, reported that all of them look just fine, but didn’t once complain that, without an htmlUrl tag, there was nothing to import. I went through and changed all of my xmlUrl tags to htmlUrl tags, and now everything has imported nicely.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: OPML Import Does NothingI take the 0 responses to indicate that I should report this as a bug.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: OPML Import Does NothingFor the record, after applying this patch and increasing MAX_FILE_SIZE in the form field to handle the size of my OPML file (32k), uploading the file, as opposed to specifying a remote URL, had precisely the same results.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Template 404.php support is borked?bcat, I believe that you’re describing the same problem that I’m experiencing, and that is the byproduct of the problem described in the linked threads. Any URL, no matter how ludicrous, yields the index page.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Template 404.php support is borked?This discussion keeps coming up, and nobody ever offers solutions. It’s very frustrating. I’ve started using a separate domain for some of my sub-sites, because the new .htaccess approach in WP2 has taken over my domain. There are no more 404s, and .htaccess mod_rewrite calls in subdirectories unrelated to my blog are being ignored.
I wish there was a plugin to go back to the standard, verbose mod_rewrite calls. Or that, at least, a WP developer would indicate that this is being worked on.
Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: 2.0 not generating permalinksWordPress 404s are gone from my install. Nonsense URLs work just fine.
Worse still, feeds no longer work. I had to take the WP1.5 RewriteRules and stick them in the header of my .htaccess.
I’m not a fan of this new internalization of .htaccesses, particularly because I guarantee you that mod_rewrite handles them faster than PHP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrading to WP 2.0An addendum to my post:
If I delete the entire cache directory (wp-content/cache/) and then immediately run upgrade.php?step=1, it works fine. The upgrade can proceed without difficulty. But then the site itself won’t run unless I repeatedly erase the cache directory. It’s as if the cache is being written (and it clearly is) but cannot be read from. I speculate that WordPress is using file_get_contents() (or a similar function) to retrieve the cache data. file_get_contents() was introduced in PHP v4.3, along with some other file-level data retrieval functions, and my servers may not properly implement that function.
I suggest that upgrade.php be exempt from any caching functions — there’s no need to cache that page or its iterations. Also, if WordPress does require PHP v4.3 or greater (which would be altogether reasonable), upgrade.php should check to make sure that it’s present.
Of course, all of this is contingent on my hunch being right that cache file data is not being retrieved, and that this is a consequence of the version of PHP that I’m running.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrading to WP 2.0I’ve had no luck upgrading. I’ve attempted to do so on four of my sites on two different servers — my home server (Redhat, MySQL 4, PHP 4, etc. — totally standard) and my DreamHost space. In terms of WP customization, all sites are quite different — some have no plugins, some half a dozen, some use my templates, some use the default, some have thousands of posts, some have just a half dozen, etc. I’ve explicitly followed the directions from the Codex, and I have the exact same problem every time.
Loading upgrade.php works. Clicking “Upgrade WordPress” (loading step=1) yields a blank page. Every. Single. Time.
I’ve gotten into a little debuggery, but the problem gets traced back into the bowels of WP’s code, at which point I’ve surrendered.
Shall I wait for WP 2.0.1? Or is there a known workaround?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Gripe against PHP dates prior to 1969What a happy coincidence that this thread would be revived today.
I run WordPress on a half dozen different sites, and I’m looking start a new one. It will reproduce historical journals from the 1800s, one day at a time, in a blog format. Of course, the necessary date format is not supported. I was about to whip up my own software, but I figured a quick check of the WordPress forums was in order.
I haven’t tried Mary’s solution yet, but I look forward to doing so.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reading Options — Posts Per PageIt’s amazing to me that this hasn’t yet been fixed in WordPress. But I’m grateful for the plugin.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Why are my templates screwy?Well, hey, go me for posting an effective question in the forums.