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After wp 3.0 upgrade no visual editor bar

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:23:34 +0000

OK this is a quicky folks. I have been noticing the last few days that when I upgrade wordpress to 3.0 or higher I was losing the Visual editor are. After reading a few posts out there, there is a lot of crap about different browsers, clearing cache etc…

I simply went into my user profile check the disable visual editor button then hit save. I then uncheck the visual editor button and hit save again. Voila the visual editor tool bar is back. Simple as that. Why did this work? I have no friggin clue and as long as its working I will let someone else spend the time to find out the why. As for now I gotta edit stuff with my visual editor bar

Upgrading WordPress

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:01:06 +0000

Ok so this will prob won’t be a surprise to many, but I always like to shoot some info out there so others can benefit.

So I was looking over some of my websites and noticed one was running worpdress version 2.1 whoa! Bad! So I decided I would upgrade from 2.3 then to 2.5 since I’m still not sure about 2.6.

So I transfer the files and nothing. Blank screen. I copy back the old 2.1 files and the site is up again. I decided I need to go to 2.2 since 2.1 is pretty old. So bamm we get to 2.2 fine the I go for the old 2.3 and same blank screen. Ok I won’t bore you with the process that follows, but after having a cup of coffee I’m saying to myself duh….. it’s prob an old plugin. I disable all the plugins transfer over the 2.5 files and bam, I’m running 2.5. Jeesh how stupid of me.

Thank God for coffee.

Chris

Yahoo Webhosting & wordpress. Phpmyadmin issues

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:28:13 +0000

Ok remind me never to use yahoo webhosting again. I took on a new client who has their site established with yahoo web hosting. They also have a yahoo store so its better to just keep everything with yahoo for now. I wanted to create a nice new home page and blog features via wordpress. Well to my surpise yahoo installed Wp via the contol panel and all seemed well. I had to created a new directory to put wordpress,but that was ok. I eventually moved it all to the root. Everything seemed to work fine for a day, but then none of the categories or posts/pages were showing up. Grrr…. So it seems there is a permalinks issue. yahoo has their own custom permalinks plugin installed, but it doesn’t seem to work correctly on WP 2.5. Yey what luck.
So I called Yahoo and talked to support. MORONS!! Guy had no clue! I just wanted to get into PHPMYADMIN and he couldn’t tell me what the problem was. I could get to the login screen, but it would just show the site name on the top left and the control panel link on the right. Well turns out that you can’t access this in Firefox! What!! Redic right? So I had to open it in Internet Explorer and then I could access phpmyadmin. You would think support could figure that one out.
Anyways Im still trying to figure out this permalinks issue. Yahoo doesn’t allow a .htaccess file so I’m off to figure out a new solution. I have a feeling Yahoo will have to update their plugin with this new version of WordPress. The default links are working, but I want the SEO url friendly links.

Anyways when I figure this out I will leave an update. What a pain. You would think a huge company like Yahoo could get this right.

UPDATE…..05/20/08
Duh! Well I just deactivated the Custom Permalinks Yahoo plugin and all seems to be well now. I actually thought I did that, but I guess not. Just drives me crazy that the first time I called Yahoo tech Support they didn’t have a clue. Anyways I hope if someone is dealing with the same issue they find this post and figure it out.

Drop yahoo and get a Host Gator account.