Developing OTFA

When is a page not a page? When it just will not save. We reckon this is a bug, but we are not sure what kind of bug it is. Could it be a problem with the WPMU layer? A conflict with one of the plugins? We are just not sure, so we’re testing things on the blog, publishing and reediting just to see where and when the problem persists.

11-05-08: We thought we had an answer when we edited lines in wp-includes/pluggable.php, but it hasn’t helped. Tsk. For example we delete a post and once deleted it reappears, with the home page of the blog inserted in the alert box. Huh? We’re checking the forums right now. This is bizarre!

12-05-08: Well, we have moved on, but how far I am not sure. For one thing we have discounted caching problems, and for another discovered the excellent plugin for Firefox called “Firebug”. This has narrowed the problematic behaviour to the prototype.js file. Or seems to have done. Still not sure. Anyway, we have several different iterations of this javascript and we’re about to test them one at a time.

Later: Moving on from the javascript, the server issue may have edged in front as the search for the culprit widens. It seems our hosting co. may have migrated us to microsoft servers (ugh!) from the LAMP environment which is so necessary for WPMU to function properly. If this is the case and I can get it confirmed I’ll either work around it or get them to migrate us back. The latter is preferable. But we’re still talking ifs and buts.

Later still: Well, there seems to have been a problem with the .htaccess file (it was blanked) which can’t have helped, but the javascript and AJAX is still making the posting of updates and pictures impossible. Onward!