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It’s all Good. » 3 Good Dots... — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:06:53 +0000

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WordPress problems solved! | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise | — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:06:14 +0000

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By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:27:31 +0000

Carolyn, that information might be useful for someone who stumbles across this post, so I’m going to leave it up there. You make very reasonable suggestions and in fact I have tried some of your suggestions: using a different browser worked for one cycle, then failed, suggesting that cookies might be involved, and completely replacing the WordPress files (several times in fact!) did not make a difference at all.

But those are excellent troubleshooting steps, and knowing that I tried them might help someone else narrow down the solution.

By: Carolyn Bahm

Carolyn Bahm — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:56:45 +0000

IGNORE MY PREVIOUS COMMENT!

D’oh! I’m so sorry. I saw “WordPress bug” and immediately thought of the issues I’ve been having — which are different. It wasn’t letting me write a new post or edit old ones. Since my blog is new, I don’t have any comments yet and haven’t run into the problem you’re having.

Sorry about that — I’ll read more carefully next time.

By: Carolyn Bahm

Carolyn Bahm — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:54:41 +0000

I’ve been wrestling with this problem for weeks. I’m no expert — just a longsuffering amateur — but some solutions that worked for me are:

- making sure the path where new posts are written include the “www.” (WP’s default doesn’t include that as part of the URL). That fixed the problem for a while and has been the most common solution I’ve seen on WordPress’s forums.

- replacing the php file for new posts or the entire wp-admin folder MULTIPLE times (this quit working after a while — and it was a huge hassle)

- using a different browser when I access the admin interface. I was skeptical but tried this on the advice of my blog’s host, and it worked. Completely fixed it (knock on wood) for the past 3 days. I was using IE 7.0.5730.11 but now I’m using Opera 9.2.1.

FYI. Hope that gives you some info that helps you track down the issue! )

FYI#2: I use Windows XP operating system.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:07:02 +0000

Ray, the Live File System format (UDF) is the default, but you can choose the standard (Mastered) format when you burn. That format is readable on any CD drive.

I’ll publish instructions in a follow-up post.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:05:47 +0000

Could you explain to us dummies out here why Vista
needs to format a CD and burn only in Live File System format. After having Vista installed on a
test maching I will only use XP to burn a CD. I
have chucked a half dozen CD’s before giving up.
Thanks
Ray

By: Kat

Kat — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:47:52 +0000

I do know that a couple of versions back (2.0?) they added some feature to prevent someone sending you a malicious link that actually goes into your own wordpress blog and makes you delete a post or something. I suspect that might have something to do with that new script.

That said, I don’t know how to fix it.