Catching static from your archives page?

March 2, 2007 in Wordpress | No comments

I’m using the Tarski theme, and loving it. It does a lot of things really well, which makes the one or two awkward bits stand out that much more. If you have Tarski create “Archives” and “Tags” pages, make sure they are viewable by anonymous users. When I logged out and viewed those pages, 404 errors (Page not found) were shown.

Apparently, WordPress 2.1+ doesn’t display pages with any post_status other than ‘publish’ to anonymous users. The pages Tarski creates are created with the post_status ‘static’. This needs to be changed from ‘static’ to ‘publish’ before anonymous users can see your Archives and Tags pages. However, those pages won’t even appear in the Manage section of the administrative interface.

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Access denied

March 1, 2007 in Windows | 1 comment

My company is making everyone upgrade to the latest Symantec firewall/antivirus combo. The upgrade to Symantec Client Security worked fine on my desktop (other than the three reboots required to uninstall the existing antivirus and firewall pieces), but weird things started happening on my laptop after I upgraded.

The first thing I noticed happening was that Gmail Notifier couldn’t connect. It kept failing to connect to the server, returning error 12029, “Can not log in to mailbox”. Firefox could open Google Mail without a problem, but Internet Explorer could not. I looked in the new firewall log to see if some new rule was messing things up, and sure enough, access was being blocked due to the rule “Block access to secure sites”. That turned out to be a spectacularly unhelpful rule.

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I’m starting to see a theme here

February 27, 2007 in Wordpress | No comments

I hit this one after installing the Simpla theme, but you could hit this with any theme.

Symptoms (after switching to a new WordPress theme):

  • The screenshot for the theme doesnt show up in the theme selector
  • The pages on the blog are unstyled
  • Theme images don’t load correctly
  • Trying to manually open the URL’s for the stylesheets, images, etc, gives you a 404 page

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Cache me if you can

February 27, 2007 in Wordpress | No comments

It’s ironic that the second post on this blog is about fixing the software the blog is running on. Oh well, such is software. When I first set up this site, I wanted to make it as performance-friendly as possible, so I set up the WordPress WP-Cache plugin. Everything seemed to work fine. However, I wasn’t quite finished messing with some other plugins, and I ran into issues with cached versions of pages not reflecting tweaks I was making in some of the core files.

Not a problem, says I…

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Here we go

February 26, 2007 in Debugging, Eclipse, Java | 1 comment

Enough time has been spent fixing bugs and getting basic things working. Hopefully, this site will help fix that.

I mostly work with Java and Eclipse, but do enough web stuff to beat my head against a wall every once in a while. This site will have tips, tutorials, bug workarounds, and anything else I can think of that people might find worthwhile.

I suppose I could start with the simplest and most embarrassing debugging problem I ever hit…

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