WordPress

WordPress Tip: Disappearing Dashboard

I have had repeated problems with my WP dashboard disappearing, or at least elements on of it. When I trouble shoot plugins I would usually find some combination that would make all the widgets reappear, but not always. The dashboard would look like this:

One day I noticed that I had a lot of Spam (noted by the red “SPAM” on the Dashboard) and clicked on the link to see what was what. I emptied the Spam and when I returned to the Dashboard, all was well!

So there is my WordPress tip of the day for you. If you Dashboard has gone wonky empty your Spam. I cannot guarantee that it will work 100% of the time for you, but so far it has for me. (Still, I wonder what is in that Spam causing the problem…)

WPtouch: iPhone WordPress Theme

Aug 25th, 2009

by Christian Brady.

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I had a bit of trouble with the last version of this WordPress plugin and the update to WP but all is well now! If you are viewing my blog on an iPhone or iPod Touch you are seeing a slick version of this blog courtesy of the WPtouch plugin. Check it out!

WordPress Woes gone with WP 2.8.1

Jul 10th, 2009

by Christian Brady.

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Whatever was actually behind my problems (described here) they are gone with the latest .1 update. Now the Dashboard looks and behaves as it should!

My woes with WordPress 2.8

Jun 19th, 2009

by Christian Brady.

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UPDATE: It looks as if the solution is “wait until updated plugins come out.” Since one or two of them (like Twitter Tools) are explicitly no longer being updated I may just degrade to 2.7.

If you follow my twitter feed then you know that I have had trouble with the Dashboard after upgrading Targuman to WordPress 2.8. When I sent out a general plea on twitter whether or not it was possible to downgrade to 2.7 I was very pleasantly surprised when @wpanswers replied “@Targuman you can downgrade, yes, but why would you want to?” I am glad you asked! And indeed, s/he offered to help further if I provided screenshots, etc. so here it is!

First a description of the problem. After upgrading I noticed that all of the nice functionality of the Dashboard was gone. I saw far less information, the menus on the left would no longer expand (but I could still click on them to go to the page), and I could not move items around. This last element means that I cannot modify widgets at all. So, first, the Dashboard as it appears without the troublesome plugins activated: (more…)

Categories to tags – Just say “no!”

Jun 16th, 2008

by Christian Brady.

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So a brief post on this because I have wasted too much time already. When v 2.5(?) of WordPress came out they put in a means to “tag” posts. Now, if I understand this correctly and that is a very big “if,” tags will help your posts be searched through the intertubes. Poking around I found that there is an “import” feature allowing you to convert your categories to tags. NB – It destroys your categories! So they are all gone and I am left with 1,300+ posts with no categories! They all have their tags, but they don’t show up with the post, they are however tagged. The “cloud” on the left is now a “tag cloud” so if you want to find, say, my posts with or about comics simply click on that tag.

*sigh* not intuitive at all.