nickaster

Thanks. Well, pretty much as expected, they give me a vague “we can’t see anything wrong” answer.

Some time last night the problems got a lot worse – readers are sometimes being asked to download a winzip file. Seems to happen accross browsers though I haven’t seen this problem myself. What the heck could cause something like that?

Are there any WP debugging tools you’d recommend? I don’t think my host is going to be very helpful with this.

sorry duplicate post. I didn’t realize posting in the plugin area linked to here

Wow, incredible. It works. Thanks. \

Could be. What’s the most intelligent way to ask them? ie – any specific things I should ask about?

okay – I traced the problem to super-cache. disabling it fixes the problem. But it’s worked fine for quite some time. Anyone out there know why super cache (or maybe a conflict with role scoper) could cause this?

Brilliant! Thank you. I’m slowly learning this code. It’s a long curve with no php experience to speak of and these examples are REALLY helpful.

oh god! I figured it out. I’m an idiot. I had a category exclusion plugin turned on. I didn’t realize it would exclude categories from author pages, just though it would affect the front page. Live and learn. Thanks for the help!

Yes – updating them didn’t do anything. But…

Aha!

I have a fascinating clue – there happens to be a category called “Presidio Buzz” which is the same name as the author “PBuzz – Display name is Presidio Buzz”

Those 5 stories that appear on the author page correctly were in OTHER categories. If I move one to the “Presidio Buzz” category then it disappears – now there are only 4.

Is it possible that wordpress does not like categories with the same name as an existing author?

About 3 weeks ago… All the posts were part of the migration, so it’s odd that 5 would make it through okay.

Yeah… all of them are set to “publish”

Here’s the way it actually manifests on the site:

This is a category page with most of the post by the author in question “Presidio Buzz”

https://www.triplepundit.com/category/presidio-buzz/

(you can see many more than 4 posts correctly listed by that author)

But when we look at that author’s author page:

https://www.triplepundit.com/author/pbuzz/

We only see 5 posts – I may have miscounted before when I said there were only 4.

The same thing happens in the back end.

Very interesting, thank you! Okay so I looked at that table using phpMyAdmin and I do indeed see 20 posts by this particular author #123. It is the correct number, and is displayed correctly if I look at the list of users in the WP admin, but as described above, only 4 posts show when I move beyond that.

What else should I be looking for?

err… any ideas for how to diagnose this? my guess is this problem happened due to migration – this blog was recently migrated from Movable type. Would that make sense?

Okay excellent. I’m not sure it works, however.

I pulled this totally generic loop code from here:
https://justintadlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/the-loop.txt

Then I added the <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> to the top of the loop and it still only pulls from the category XXX

So it looks to me like you can’t override it? Is there a better example of the most generic loop possible that I could tinker with?

Thanks!

Hmm… thanks.

So question one – is the template always going to automatically set itself to show ONLY category XXX before it even loads? Ie – is that controlled by code on the page, or is that decision made earlier when WP chooses the template?

I’m assuming the latter might be the case… so are you saying this is difficult to override?

Any chance some database sleuthing might shed light on this?