Wordpress

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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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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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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