guidedog

Interesting, and expensive, as I had paid in for a more than a year ahead to save myself the hassle of at least one set of reminders and re-licensing. Oh well…

So which is worse, spending time finding another solution for my classroom web presence and collaboration (a wiki?) or sticking to what some of the kids are used to and having to go out to buy the AV/anti-spyware that I got from the security suite version of ZA.

Hmm…

You allude to wider problems than just the WP editing, although nothing else *seems* to have been caused by their code.

Samboll,
Thanks for the link. I thought I had read every “enable sending referers” message from the past year and a half but I’d missed that one.

However, the ZA “guru” is suggesting a fix for sites mistaken by ZA for threats, and I have been experiencing the inability to post or edit in WP because I am not sending/WP is not seeing referer info. I don’t get a ZA Security pop-up warning. I will take the steps he describes because I have to try everything before I move to another technology platform for the blog.

I’m not willing to turn off my ZA while I am posting to/editing the blog.

One of the threads that is linked in that discussion says that the whole thrust of fixes suggested during the past two years+ had been to avoid or circumvent a problem that should be addressed. “It doesn’t fix a problem to lower security to make the app work” or words to that affect.

There are a lot of ZA users out there and WP can’t exclude itself from that large a crowd. If we are a big group, why can’t someone who really cares/benefits from more WP growth sit down to figure it out? The only answer has to be that we are a smaller number than our howls of frustration would indicate.

Again, Samboll, thanks

Sorry not to have included my version in the last post.

I took advantage of my hoster’s existing install of WP2.0.2 (Maybe 2.0.1?). That is, I did not install it myself. So the question of learning to install remotely and fix new problems looks like I have to either live with the time commitment, ot pick a different solution.

I’m a teacher (5th grade) and I love having a blog… for me, for the kids to see what it’s “about”. We are in a rural area with few computers at home. But I don’t get paid for having a blog. I am taking time from teaching duties that are recognized by my bosses to do this so I think it’s on to another platform or technology like a wiki… something that I won’t have to work on so much.

I do like learning how to do these things, but the students are suffering for the time lost and the tool they were using is broken, due probably to the wrong mixture of software on the client side.

There’s no one to blame here. Just a new set of “bad fit for me–gotta switch.” events.

I am working now on that old bugaboo– “enable sending referers” — and because that problem persists even after trying most of the fixes, I find myself willing to do ANYTHING that would make that easier. Did changes in v2.1 make this issue less likely?

It does seem to be ZoneAlarm, not the butler, that did it…

I am not a WordPress or HTML expert but I noticed — when I came to your site — that a blue rectangle appeared first in the header area, and *then* your attractive identification image rendered itself and placed on the rectangle. It seems that the wine-varietals image is just a bit too narrow for the blue rectangle. Or vice-versa.

Can you get at the sizes in the HTML code?

Jonathan