iPhone and iPad users: If you’ve had enough of the complete bugginess of the WordPress App you need to give this one a try. At $2.99 it’s not as cheap (free) as the WordPress app but BlogPress (iTunes link) actually works! You just enter the type of blog you have (WordPress self-hosted blogs still use the WordPress setting), your username, password and site address. That’s it!
My site was giving me error messages until I enabled the XML-RPC feature under Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing but now all is well. Holy crap! It’s like the future!
Update 2: Looks like wp-security-scan is also having some conflict issues /killing the admin on a few sites I’ve done upgrades on. I’m deactivating that where necessary.
Check out the video below highlighting the changes in this newest (and long awaited) version.
Send me a note if you’d like me to build you a site using this awesome content management system / blogging platform or if you have questions concerning your current WordPress site. Those of you with sites already based on WordPress and hosted with GroovySoup will be updated as we sort through the changes and make sure everything works as it should. Remember: all installs are different due to the plugins you use and the custom code used in your site themes. These differences can cause parts of the site to stop functioning correctly until they are sorted out. That’s why we’re taking our time rolling this one out :)
Update: We did find a bug with our site and All in One SEO forcing us to deactivate that plugin. It’s not necessarily the plugin’s fault but turning it off solved our issue which was the live site not displaying correctly or at all.
Let’s say you’re trying to upgrade all of your plug ins at once using Tools > Upgrade. Let’s also say that WordPress hangs mid upgrade with the site in maintenance mode. How do you fix it? Assuming you have FTP access, go to the top level directory for your WordPress install and delete the file named “.maintenance”. This file is created when you opt to do mass upgrades and generates the “Site in Maintenance mode, come back in a minute” message.
Related to this potential disaster is the “I can’t get my damn WordPress to auto update” issue. I happen to have been suffering from this one on a few blogs and guess what? It’s one of the plug ins I have installed on the site(s). Solution? Go to your Plug ins page, deactivate all of your plug ins, do your WP core upgrade, then re-activate all of your plug ins. It worked for me but your results may vary :) I found this solution here.
Okay, let’s say you took forever to respond to a comment on your WordPress site and you didn’t get to reply before a new comment showed up. I know I know. I should be using nested comments but I’m not. Here’s what I did to fix it:
Go to your wp_comments table in your WordPress database (remember, we’re assuming you WANT to mess around with your database entries here and that this is a one time fix).
Look for the field called comment_date_gmt and change the dates or times for the poorly timed reply so it’s just after the comment you want to reply to. You can see what each of the comments contains by looking at the contents field if you need to.
That’s it. Now the comments will appear in the order you need them to be. If someone knows of a plugin for this I’d love to see it. Not very complicated I know :)
So Zemanta launched a big old update over the weekend and it has a ton of new, good stuff in it. Unfortunately the Firefox extension doesn’t seem to work so well, at least not for OS X (Snow Leopard). I tried all the things recommended here and no luck.
I’m not one to give up though, especially after I set all my preferences and stuff. Besides, I LOVE Zemanta. It makes adding links and relevant information a breeze. And it’s free :) So here’s the way around it for WordPress users: just download the plugin instead and let Zemanta work from within WordPress instead of within Firefox. It doesn’t cause any extra load time for your visitors since it only loads its styles and javascript once you’re logged into the admin part of your site. Not on WordPress or Firefox? That’s okay. Zemanta has you covered for Chrome and Safari (with bookmarklets) and Movable Type, Joomla and Drupal. They even have a plugin for the dreaded Internet Explorer.
iPhone and iPad users: If you’ve had enough of the complete bugginess of the WordPress App you need to give this one a try. At $2.99 it’s not as cheap (free) as the WordPress app but BlogPress (iTunes link) actually works! You just enter the type of blog you have (WordPress self-hosted blogs still use the WordPress setting), your username, password and site address. That’s it!
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