WP switching to main blog on publish/update: Sitewidetags plugin issue?

  • I have a multisite installation on one domain with 24 network blogs in sub-directories. I’m using the Sitewidetags plugin to pull post excerpts and thumbnails from the network sites onto the main blog. This seems to be working OK.

    But I am experiencing three problems which may be related:

    Firstly, when publishing/updating a post I frequently (but not always) get an error message telling me I have attempted to update a post which does not exist; I have to use the back button to return to the previous page. However, the post has been published normally when I check in a separate browser.

    Secondly, when I update or make a new post, instead of returning the updated page in the admin I am often (but not all the time) switched to a completely different (apparently random) post in the main blog (the admin switches to the main blog also). The original post is published, however, and the thumbnail and post also pulled to the main blog OK.

    I have tried switching off the Sitewidetags plugin, and a post can be updated normally (obviously not being pulled to the main blog), although as the fault is intermittent this is not yet conclusive.

    Thirdly, but more rarely, when opening to the main blog home page, I experience a delay and then it flicks to a network blog home page url, which usually does not load completely. On refresh the correct home page is loaded.

    The network runs off a litespeed hybrid server with 2GB RAM so there’s no problem with resources. I have installed WP Total Cache network wide, but have not set any JS or CSS to be minified as I encountered some configuration issues. I use disk enhanced for the page cache, disk for minified, opcode for object cache and database cache, and browser cache is also activated. Memcached is available on the server but I have not implemented it in WP TC.
    The theme used is Studiopress Genesis Lifestyle on all sites.

    I am using Firefox and Chrome on Windows 7 and Vista. The server is in Chicago, we are running off cable in Sydney Australia.

    Anyone experienced anything similar?

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  • Dunno offhand. I meant to tag him on this thread, but it;s been a busy couple of days.

    The tags for SWT so I’ll see your thread is wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags.

    I did make a minor change 5 days ago, see https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/log/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/.

    Try turning off the cache plugin.

    The basic mechanics of switching to the main/tags blog, saving the post & switching back to the original blog have not changed in SWT in a long while.

    Thread Starter zamba

    (@zamba)

    I have a feeling this is more complicated than it looks. Turning off STW has removed the error messages, and the most obvious redirects, but I have still had a four instances when clicking on a link to a post from within a blog has resulted in a misdirection via substitution of another blog in the link. So I’m certainly not out of the woods yet.

    Currently, W3 Total Cache is still installed with the settings mentioned in the first post. There appears to be some anomalies in the files it is supposed to create in wp-content, i.e. it has not created a settings file for some blogs even though they have been individually activated.

    With the imminent release of WP 3.1 I will probably try removing W3TC completely and reinstall it from scratch. Currently I’m finding my pages take a long time to start rendering, and then load quite quickly.
    If the re-install works OK then I’ll re-activate the latest version of STW and see how I go.

    If anyone else has experienced similar site substitution problems recently, let me know! I can’t help but think it may have something to do with the plethora of .htaccess settings flying around…

    I have a feeling this is more complicated than it looks. Turning off STW has removed the error messages, and the most obvious redirects, but I have still had a four instances when clicking on a link to a post from within a blog has resulted in a misdirection via substitution of another blog in the link. So I’m certainly not out of the woods yet.

    Yeah, you definitely have something going on there. The only thing that SWT does that you don’t see in a great number of plugins is call switch_to_blog(). It does not do any redirects.

    Thread Starter zamba

    (@zamba)

    This might be the answer, but with reference to my use of an object cache.
    Note this thread:
    Permalink displays incorrect URL when using switch_to_blog and the wptrac bug with Object Caching here: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/14992
    I’m continuing to look at this.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    That should NOT affect the backend. W3TC doesn’t cacge the admin side.

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