Yet another Category link doesn’t work post–but with info!

If your url is this: “https://test.wordpress.com” then something is very wrong.
When did you enter that as a url ?

Sorry, guess I should have mentionned it. That part is fine. I’ve got a setup with a virtual host. This simply redirects me to /root/wordpress/ It’s how I set up all my development domains.

I can also confirm, having done a difference check on all the files under the theme section, that there is no difference in the orginal code. So we can rule that out too.

I can also confirm, that having turned on mod_rewrite and activating the permalinks, that the permalinks give me exactly the same result.

Suggestions?

We can’t really help with it setup like that I guess I could add an entry for test.wordpress.com in my hosts file to get the same effect as you but I shouldn’t have to.

It is likely that something related to that is causing the problem, if you correct the URL to be the internet facing URL and then post again then we can have a look at it.

That doesn’t really matter. I merely do this as a convenience to myself. Check it out for yourself: you can access it at zeph.dnsalias.com/wordpress I can also access it via localhost/wordpress/ or 127.0.0.1/wordpress/ or test.wordpress.com/ it’s all the same thing, and the same issue remains unchanged regardless of how I access it.

NEW FACTS: The link actually works correctly when I change themes! When I use the default them, or the ‘classic’ theme, the link works. So somthing I did broke it–yet a file comparison of each of the file in the theme folders, reveal that I have not changed, or lost any of the default code.

What can I be missing? Where could I look? What would be obvious questions to a PHP person that might not be obvious to me?

Yes, YOU can access it like that but you have URL’s setup within your WordPress to use the absolute URL of test.wordpress.com so unless people edit their hosts file then they don’t see what you see.

Update your base URL to be zeph.dnsalias.com/wordpress in your options / general and then someone might be able to help and heck it may even solve your problem.

Ah! Gotcha. Done. I’d forgotten that it needed to be set in the options panel as well. Should be better now.

BTW: I totally LOVE the idea of using RSS to keep tabs on a thread. That was a real stroke of genius.

Much better. ??

The category page is getting to a certain stage in rendering and then waiting on a call to load something from “useneybinaries.com” and then not getting any further.

What are you trying to include?

Absolutely nothing. Other than the changing of location of the side bar, and the re-writing of the HTML in the head and foot, I’ve made no changes. A search for “useneybinaries.com” in my files revealed nothing.

Where did you find “useneybinaries.com”? A find in my html, a search of all the db tables, and looking in the source didn’t reveal it to me.

In Firefox when viewing a category page it will render for me up to a point where it starts trying to load something from useneybinaries.com, which is only indicated by the status bar, possibly it is something dnsalias is doing? It looks like it is a typo on someone’s behalf as I’m sure it is supposed to be usenetbinaries.com but why I have no idea.

I tried this on two seaprate machines just to rule out Firefox showing something wonky from another page in the status bar but had the same results in both places.

You also have some HTML errors, which prevent your page being displayed in IE:

Validation results

Yes, I now see the useneybinaries.com thing. Oddly enough, when I go directly to my IP, I am unable to view the site, much in the same way that IE doesn’t display it. Very, very strange. I’ll investigate that, and get back to you briefly.

As far as the HTML goes, I did have a trailing div at the end. Thanks for pointing that out.

Removing the trailing DIV fixed IE but the categories are still doing something weird with useneybinaries.com, I have no idea what that could be though.

OK, I’ve cleaned up a lot of the html, it should present well on FireFox, IE, and Opera (at least the PC versions). You are right, though, it appears as if the processing is interrupted somehow. If you look at the results page, the div does not appear to terminate. Something is indeed interrupting it. Yet, it doesn’t on other templates. I don’t understand this.

What do you have in your themes archive.php just after:

<p>You are currently browsing the archives for the <category> category.</p>

Ah! The cause has been found. 50% of the problem solved. The cause is that I moved the line

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

To just below

<?php get_header(); ?>

When I return it to end, just above

<?php get_footer(); ?>

It displays the content. Apparently the archive page seems to be feeding some value to a variable in get_sidebar().

Now all I have to do, is to get it to display in the correct location (on the left hand side, before the content is fed)

BTW: I don’t think I’ve thanked you for your able questions and persistent help. Thanks! I really appreciate your help.