kbfrench

Ok. Fixed. And it was a dumb problem. Somewhere in there I had created a rss file in the feed/ folder that didn’t end in .php so that Bloglet could recognise it. Because of that, wordpress wasn’t updating the files in that folder. I deleted the entire folder, wordpress re-created them, and it all works now.

Thanks
KB

I’ve already replaced wp-blog-header. I’m also not getting a 304 error.
Thanks, though.

So… how does a subscriber remove himself from the mailing list?

My cheap solution was a flop. I don’t have time just yet to try thefreefood’s plugin, but it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a very useful solution for my needs.

Thanks though!
KB

No offense on my part, anyway.

Of course it’s shameless self-promotion. You expect them to not promote their services? Nevertheless, ther WAS a problem with welblogs.com. And it’s spelled MOLASSES. Weblogs had terrible response times, and little responsiveness from the people maintaining it. The problem is that they released 1.5 before getting ping-0-matic up to par AND not telling anybody about it.

But then, somebody could theoretically use the old links-update file, or create a plugin that adapts it to 1.5. (obviously, I haven’t tried yet)

The times haven’t updated because wordpress isn’t getting any new times from ping-o-matic, so the time displayed is the last time it updated to.

I sent a note to ping-o-matic yesterday, asking what the appropriate workaround was going to be, since so few people are pinging ping-o-matic:

Beyond sending pings, do you have any plans to actively look up other pinging services, so catch updates you missed? Or maybe some other workaround that doesn’t involve me evangelizing on your behalf?

Matt Mullenweg wrote back:

Well I would of course recommend evangelizing, but we do plan to expand
checking to include blogs that ping weblogs.com, we just didn’t want
that to hold up the release of WP 1.5.

So basically, they’re planning on setting up ping-0-matic to check weblogs.com, but it hasn’t been set up now.

In the mean time, I’m thinking about seeing if I can get the old links-update file to work. Probably bad, but I need something to work ??

Actually, probably the cleanest way would be to have a plugin that creates a third category of theme: Current Theme Developing Theme, and Other Themes. The test theme would generate the entire weblog, using the test theme, under a subfolder category (say “develop,” or even “wp-content/themes/develop”).

Hm…

OK. A cheap solution that seems to work: I took the old
<?php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC."/links-update-xml.php"); ?>

line and updated it to
<?php include_once("https://mysite.com/wp-admin/update-links.php"); ?>

now things are updating, but it doesn’t look like all my favorites are pinging ping-o-matic yet.

One or two, one or two….