Comments on: WP 2.1 Breakage

By: Programming and Designing for the Web » Blog upgrade

Programming and Designing for the Web » Blog upgrade — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:56:46 +0000

[...] There was pretty much no extra work involved. It just worked. I guess I’m lucky though as some others have been having [...]

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:19:19 +0000

HA! I’m glad someone else posted about the visual editor not being there as I was too lazy to investigate it myself. Turns out I disabled it so long ago that I forgot it was on the profile page.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:18:59 +0000

Thanks, everyone! The tabs are figured out (just had trouble finding the preference setting) and I did come up with a “fix” for the feeds and archive page. I’ll blog it in a few minutes.

By: Oli

Oli — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:31:52 +0000

Re: “Because I”ll be switched if I can find it”. The tabbed view is not enabled as default – go to Users > Your Profile and check “Use the visual editor when writing”. This will display both the visual and code editors, and let you flip between them.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:28:02 +0000

Your RSS feed finally works again. Firefox was not able to read the file for quite a while.

By: Colin Scroggins

Colin Scroggins — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:39:58 +0000

I just did a clean install of WP 2.1 on Textdrive, and I do not see the visual and code tabs (per PseudoTecnico’s image) in the post editor, either.

By: Peter J.

Peter J. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:57:51 +0000

I've also got my own slightly-lengthy set of rewrites, and have found two tricks that seem to help: first, add all of your own rules before WP's, and second, use the [L] flag liberally in your RewriteRules (e.g. RewriteRule ^archives/(.+)$ /blog/$1 [R=301,L] instead of just RewriteRule ^archives/(.+)$ /blog/$1 [R=301]).

By: Alexander Graf

Alexander Graf — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:42:16 +0000

I’m on the grid, which isn’t even a grid but rather a cluster. I’m really, really considering getting a (dv), the grid is slow, has outages and whatnot. Since it’s a huge cluster with a load balancer, not everyone will get the same results. That is, when a mail server goes down, it won’t affect all customers.

But I don’t want to hijack Erics post.

Eric: “anyone know of a quick and simple way to just disable WordPress” internal rewrite code, so I can go back to using my .htaccess file?”

I’m very sure that there is no simple way to do that.

wp-includes/rewrite.php defines a global singleton that handles all the rewriting. It’s for exampled called a few times from classes.php

Your best bet would be to look there. If you want, you can still contact me via mail/im/web and I’ll try to look into your specific problem.

By: Will Kessel

Will Kessel — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:24:42 +0000

“Lies!”?

I didn’t see that at all. Are you on the grid, or the shared server?

By: Alexander Graf

Alexander Graf — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:56:42 +0000

I think mod_rewrite is the problem, along with the internal rewriting WP does, when handed the expressions from mod_rewrite.

Oh and the IMAP server at (mt) wasn’t accessible for an hour or so. It just returned “Lies!” which is an incredibly strange response for a mailserver Oo.

By: Will Kessel

Will Kessel — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:28:39 +0000

Eric,

Could your MySQL version be a part of the trouble? I ask this only because I almost used WP 2.1 for a site I’m building at the moment and hosting at the Bend, only to find that I can’t because I have the wrong version of MySQL: (mt) on the shared servers only uses 3.23; I have to upgrade to the grid server for MySQL 4.

I, too, shudder at “free, painless” upgrades: they usually aren’t painless, aren’t much of an upgrade, and are generally expensive in terms of time spent correcting miscellaneous issues like this.

And (no intent to make this a kvetching session about WP), in a semi-related question (only related by virtue of the fact that I haven’t been able to get a response from Matt or the rest of the WP crew on this — and it’s been almost a month): did you ever figure out how to reverse the post order? I have a client that needs that, too…

Alex: what was the mail hiccup at (mt)? I didn’t notice anything…

By: Alexander Graf

Alexander Graf — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:35:39 +0000

Eric, I’m still offering my help. Last 2 comments didn’t appear apparently.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:54:46 +0000

Oh, yeah, I definitely still need help. No movement since my last message to the list, so whatever I last said, it’s still a problem as I write this.

By: Chris Poteet

Chris Poteet — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:39:34 +0000

Eric,

I got this through the WP-Hackers list. Do you still need help with this? Let me know if you do.

Chris

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:37:14 +0000

One would think getting CSS3 to recommendation status would be easier than playing with mod_rewrite.c