mlanger

It’s normal to end up with a blank post form (post.php) after publishing a post. At least I think it is. That’s how it works on my two blogs.

But I also have a problem with trackbacks and pingbacks not being sent. This is a weird problem that seems to be affecting some WordPress blogs but not others. I wish we could all get together and compare our setups: number of entries, size of database, plugins, etc. Perhaps we can find a common link among us to help troubleshoot why we are having the problem while others are not.

WordPress 2.0.2
large database (over 1MB with 400 entries)
lots of plugins (can list if necessary)
Running on Apache server, Mac OS X Tiger server

I’ve gone to Test Track and have successfully sent both a trackback and a pingback (separately) to my site. No problem. However I still cannot send a trackback or pingback to another site from by blog. And yes, I did check comment moderation on Test Track to make sure they weren’t hung up there.

Does anyone here have any additional information about these suspected causes of this problem?

• PHP memory
• pings “stuck” in the queue in the MySQL database
• plugin conflicts

Rosie, dumb question time. Where is the .htaccess file located in your setup? In the WordPress directory? Or a parent directory? I have no success with .htaccess in the WordPress directory.

There has to be something that’s causing some of us not to be able to send trackbacks or pingbacks and others to have no problems. I can receive both pingbacks and trackbacks but can’t send either one. I’ve tried to numerous blogs with admins who were looking for the comment. I’ve even tried to the test site above. Nothing.

I am having a heck of a time getting either trackbacks or pingbacks FROM my blog to work. I apparently CAN receive them.

I suspect this may have something to do with .htaccess or mod_rewrite, but I can’t find a document that explains how these should be set for trackbacks/pingbacks with WordPress 2.0.x. (I have terrible luck with the Codex search feature).

Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

How about https://www.wickenburg-az.com/

It’s a HTML site rebuilt with WordPress 2.0.

I used this plugin with Wp-cron to back up my blogs nightly and e-mail them to me. good thing I did. My hard disk crashed and I had to rebuild both blogs, each of which have 300+ entries.

One rebuild went off without a hitch. I used MySQL Administrator to restore the backup file and spent the next two days tweaking the theme (again; now it’s backed up daily, too). THANK YOU!

But the other rebuild isn’t working. MySQL Administrator gives me the following error: “Error Loading Backup File.” I get a glimpse of a progress bar right before the message; it seems to move about 1/10-1/6 of the way through the file.

Opened the file with a text editor, no problem. The file is large — 1.8 MB. I did not go through the whole thing because I don’t know what I’m looking for. I’m new to MySQL.

Any suggestions? I’m using a Mac, so there are limits to the GUI tools available to me. I can type commands into the Mac’s Terminal application, right on the server, but I have no clue what to type.

Help?

In WordPress 2.0, this now appears to be:

#categorydiv div div {
height: 12em;
overflow: auto;
}

Thanks for posting the answer; this was driving me batty.

Actually, I came up with my own fix. I included an img src tag right before the tag that displays the post content. I included an align=”right” instruction and a variable that would pull out the author’s user ID number. That ID is appended to a path where all author images reside, named with their user numbers . So when I post a message, it automatcially pulls up the image named 1.jpg and voila!

You can see the results at the Web site, which is now live at https://www.wickenburg-az.com/. What’s cool is that if there is no picture, there’s no error message.

Not a bad fix for someone who know squat about PHP, huh?

But thanks for your help!

On a related note, how can I get the list on the Post page to NOT be a scrolling list. How about a regular list so I can see all the categories at once?

What do I tweak and where is it?

Thanks, moshu! I’ll check it out.

I’m also using a modified version of Connections (not Reloaded) and it works fine. In fact, my whole upgrade experience went very well! (Knock wood.)

Related to this topic…

Is there any way to add my own HTML code buttons to the old-style post editor? I use the <H3> formatting A LOT and having a button to click would make my life easier as I continue to manually copy and paste over 300 entries on an existing HTML-based site to a new WordPress-powered site.

for the curious: https://www.gilesrd.com/ is the temporary address.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I tried it and got the following error when attempting to use the <?php ec3_get_calendar(); ?> code:

WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘u.user_nickname’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT p.id AS id, post_title, post_date, u.user_nickname AS author FROM wp_posts p, wp_post2cat p2c, wp_users u WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_date_gmt > ‘2005-12-27 00:00:00’ AND p.id = post_id AND p.post_author = u.id AND category_id = 11 ORDER BY post_date LIMIT 5

Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

I’ve also had some disappointing results with this new feature. But one thing I noticed is that you can resize the image by dragging a corner. YOu can also edit the HTML to remove the size options, thus restoring the image to its uploaded size.