Dashboard Not Updating

This must be related to pingomatic alright. It’s a hell of a coincidence otherwise.

It can’t be, because pingomatic is back online (for now, at least).

My dashboard is empty as well.

All I see is

Below is the latest news from the official WordPress development blog, click on a title to read the full entry.

and Latest Activity

rest of the page is blank

Running 1.5 and also no dashboard. Not that i’m really missing it ??

I have a couple of WP blogs on ace-host and both are not displaying the feeds in the dashboard. Another blog I have on blogsome too is not displaying the feeds in the dashboard.

It doesn’t seem to be a host problem.

Dashboard is blank for me too on three different sites, on different servers, all hosted with 34sp.com

Is the problem is with the RSS feed that Dashboard uses?

Look at this page:

https://www.ads-software.com/development/feed/

Firefox says:

XML Parsing Error: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity
Location: https://www.ads-software.com/development/feed/
Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

The cause may have something to do with something it says at the start of the XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/1.6-ALPHA-do-not-use" -->

It may even be as simple as the two blank lines at the start of the XML – I know little about XML but I think it is strict about things like that.

Maybe it is time to call it a day and chuck the dashboard en-masse ??

I hope that awakens the powers-that-be to re-write the Dashboard as part of next release. Having feeds as part of Dashboard is a BAD idea.

I dont think that is a huge issue but it would be nice to know WHY it is happening. I know it is not a huge priority but i don’t like mysteries so i would apreciate it if a codeing god would mind looking at the problem for a few minues. I mean half the people here paracticly know all the code line for line. Anyway…. thanks everyone for trying to help….

Cron – Symmetry In My Mind

graemp: it is the feed.

For all wondering, AFAIK, the dev blog is running on the current SVN. The error in the feeds has been seen before and it caused by extra whitespace at the top of the feed. Matt did some changing a few days ago and something is probably causing the feeds not parse correctly. AFAIK he is aware of this, if not, I’m sure it will come up in today’s meetup.

Thanks, Ryan.

In terms of usability, the dashboard still doesn’t make much sense to me – 90% of the time surely you log in to update the content of your site – not look for updates elsewhere in the world. (well I do anyhoos)

I’d prefer to be able to see at a glance exactly what was happening around my site on the dashboard, and have one click access to as many things as possible, by default… (err… like in a car i guess, maybe that’s where you guys got the name from?)

If I could get to my most tweaked css files fast, for example, I would be an even happier bunny!

In the meantime I can live with a blank screen for a while I guess…

My dashboard has vanished too. It’s has been MIA for amost two days now. What’s going on with it anyway?

What’s going on with it anyway?

Please kindly read the rest of the thread before posting. Specifically, please read the post by ryanduff, which just so happens to be three posts above yours.

As a matter of interest can I replace that content with my own?

“Topic started 5 years ago”???