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WordPress Dashboard Resolved (Maybe)

Lyle — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:08:13 +0000

This post on the WordPress support forums seems to have helped me resolve the bad Dashboard display, although I can’t point to a specific issue.

I changed the name of my plug-ins folder (renamed from “plugins” to “plugins_old”), logged out and logged into the dashboard and forced a reload of the pages. Dashboard looked normal. I then turned on the plug-ins one by one to see if I could identify a specific one that was causing a problem. Alas, plug-ins back on and the problem did not come back. So, the problem is fixed, but the source of the problem is not identified.

I’ll roll this through the other sites and see if I can find out more, but for now dashboard works fine which is all I care about right now. Too busy to spend time exploring.

WordPress Dashboards Failed

Lyle — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:41:11 +0000

Having trouble posting. All the dashboards failed even though the sites are running fine. A couple of posts on support forums indicate I’m not the only having problems, but no answers being reported. Messed up dashboard and the way its supposed to work shown below:

: Screwed Up Screen from WordPress

Update: http://lschofield.net/technical/2010/04/wordpress-dashboard-resolved-maybe/

Loading Old Content

Lyle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:13:55 +0000

This install of WordPress is 2.8 – a number of minor versions from where I was. The work done on this product is pretty impressive, the Dashboard and management tools behind the scenes are slick, well designed, and easy to use. The plugin and widget implementation have removed almost all my desire to tinker with the raw theme editor tools.

Of particular interest is the “import” capabilities. You can now import content from old blog implementations, which is nice for someone like me that has reimplemented and somewhat abandoned installs over the years. There are some rough spots. My personal page import from Blogger only grabs 16 posts for some reason, leavin me with a cut & paste job on dozens of pages. I found my old notes on “modblog”, another experiment long since died, but the Internet Archives had most of the articles and I’m pulling them over manually.

I also found a database backup from an old WordPress install on my home machine. Able to load the data into MySQL, but alas, no WordPress install old enough to use it. So, more cut & paste.

Hardly worth it for my little musings, but I’d rather load the content and get it onto this one server.

WP Templates…

Lyle — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:03:54 +0000

First, helps to set the wp-content “themes” directory to allow writing. Duh.

Not too bad. I’m starting from a template from Mike Little that is clean with both sides having a column. I think by the time I’m done its doing to have little in common with the original outside of the CSS layout information.

Recent WordPress Install

Lyle — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:01:33 +0000

Some more details…

This site (and some others here) are powered by the wonderful WordPress “blog” content management tools. The site is currently powered by Red Hat-Apache-PHP-MySQL (the “LAMP” approach), and WordPress is an obvious selection with this framework. I’ve tried a bunch, and even use Blogger and some other things, but I want to spend less time coding and more time typing.

As I’m learning PHP, this also seems like a nice way to get into it, since the Theme and Plug In approach allow a high degree of tinkering or taking advantage of others’ tinkers.

I have multiple installations set up on this server. This is achieved by defining multiple MySQL databases and directories before the WordPress install script is run. The only down side is the multiple theme instances you need to define as they are in a subdirectory to the installation, but over time I think I can probably work with this.