Updated 2008-02-04 14:43:16 by admin:
Thanks to Grant Dobbe, Nerd for hire, for all of the fine improvements to Tuttle’s Corner.
A day late and a dollar short as usual, but we’ll reopen before Spring.
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Before we start, I’d like to give a shout out to the person(s) searching Google for ‘dermata fibroma.’
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♁: This entry builds upon a topic I began in the WP forums and it is intended to provide more information about my WP issue both for the benefit of participants in the WP forums who may be able to help me out, and of friends of the hobotrain network in keeping with this site’s mission.
Subject: All archives links returning same list of posts
Categories and monthly archives display the correct number of posts for a category or month in the sidebar; category and archive pages are associated with expected permalinks when they are selected, but, each categorical and monthly archive is only populated by my most recent posts, by date, in descending order.
I’m fairly sure the problem is in a theme file as I had this issue out of the box with my theme (although archive.php seems to be in order).
WP and all plugins are up to date. I’ve validated my markup; updated WP tags in theme files that have changed since 2.2; re-installed WP; deactivated/reactivated all plugins; deleted, reposted all entries; deleted and re-added all categories.
Any other ideas will be a help.
Sorry I’m unable to publish my site’s URI publicly, but I am happy to post any code people might be interested in seeing into a paste-bin.
Thank you.
(I always say thank you when I post in a support forum.)
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In other words, the thing that is keeping me from going live with Tuttle’s Corner is that all of the sidebar links to Tuttle’s Corner’s various archives are broken. These include the Category links as well as the links to monthly Archives. This will not do, and until this issue is corrected, I am reticent about opening Tuttle’s Corner (the site) for business.
Updated 19 JUL 07:
I’ve spent the whole of the last nine days on this problem. I’ve tried all manner of things I have no prior experience in, and one thing I can say for my effort is that I haven’t fucked anything else up while I’ve been trying to get my links to work: I fixed all 71 w3c validation errors (including 34 on the clock); got the CSS to validate; learned how to index my databases; how to add divs to a stylesheet; how to update WP PHP tags and variables in my theme, and I tried the other troubleshooting steps described above but the problem with Category and Archives links persists; about the only thing I haven’t done in the past nine days is write any new posts, so two birds with one stone here…
Updated 21 JUL 07:
Do I expect any answers beyond those I’ve already received in the WP forums? No. No one’s even looked at the archive.php file I posted in the WP paste-bin. The only other thing I could think to do was to contact the author of WP theme I’m using at Tuttle’s Corner, and she responded by suggesting that I install the updated version of the theme which contained no bugs.
“No bugs” was an interesting way of putting it.
Indeed, when I installed the theme’s latest version, I found that Category and Archives links behaved as expected, but all of the other issues I’ve spent the last four months fixing were back again. It would have been nice if the theme author had just helped me with the issue I wrote her about rather than fobbing a new broken version off on me, but that’s as good a response as I’ve ever received from people I’ve written who have authored bits of open source for WordPress. Now, with the restaurant closing for August, I’ll probably have a bit more time to comb through the PHP files from both versions to find the problem. In the meantime, I’ve removed both the Category and Archives headings and links from the right sidebar and replaced them with a Site Map that is available from the navigation bar at the top of each page. The Category links don’t work from the Site Map either, but at least all of the posts and information pages are laid out by date and category in a list on one page.
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