herschel

Hmm, I noticed that the bug is now marked fixed, but there’s no patch posted and no link to another bug that might have fixed it. Anyone know what the real fix is?

Yeah, I was the anonymous poster in the bug tracker. In my other post here I was trying to say to leave the second line, just getting rid of the first “if” line, but since the formatting got lost in the post, it wasn’t apparent that there were two different lines in my code.

So, yeah, leave that line that you left in there. If you get rid of that one it’ll stop trying to ping update services altogether.

This isn’t a real fix, though. I don’t know nearly enough about WP and pings to do a real fix. This is just a temporary workaround for the bug.

There shouldn’t be any negative effects from this workaround as far as I can tell. All it does is make it so WP never tries to use the “extended ping” functionality that was added in 1.5.1.

It does seem to be a problem with the new extended ping. In function weblog_ping in functions.php, there’s this code:

if ( !$client->query('weblogUpdates.extendedPing', get_settings('blogname'), $home, get_bloginfo('rss2_url') ) ) // then try a normal ping
$client->query('weblogUpdates.ping', get_settings('blogname'), $home);


I got rid of the if line so that it always just does a normal ping, and now it’s successfully pinging. It sounds like pingomatic is the only site that supports extended ping, which would be why listing other update services in its place worked.

For what it’s worth, I’m having the same problem on a fresh 1.5.1 install. I have another blog I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.5.1 yesterday, and it can ping the update services fine.

If I manually enter my info at the pingomatic website, everything works. Maybe there’s something wonky going for some sites in the new extended ping format that got added in 1.5.1?

farrokh: The readme page is available at https://negahi.com/readme.html, without php_uploads. It looks like php_uploads is your root directory for your web site.

Ok, I looked at the code a bit more, and found the SQL query in wp-blog-header.php.
I’m now wondering if the easiest way might just be to change the code in that file to automatically do two queries for the two categories I want, and return two different $posts variables, one for each category. Then I could easily loop through one for each column of the home page.
That doesn’t sound too bad, except for when I want to upgrade WP, since I’d have changed one of its core files…
Anyone out there who’s more familiar with WP (I’ve only played with it a bit on opensourcecms.com) know of a better way?