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Gah! Glitches! Damn you Word Press!

September 8, 2014 by Chump Lady

So, I just updated to WordPress 4.0 and my site went to hell. Apparently, you can read this column, but you cannot comment and my side bars and other links are not working.

I’ve got troubleshooting questions posted in forums and calls into various geeks. If you’re a chump and an IT geek, and you think you know the answer, email me at info @ chumplady.com

Sorry for the glitches. Hopefully, we’ll get things in working order soon.

MOST frustrating thing? The blog is thiiiiiiiiissssss close to flipping the odometer to 3 million page views. Like, within the next hour. And then THIS.

Gah!

Anyway, I’m working on it, chumps. Just wanted to let you know… it’s not you. It’s me.

Latest… https://wordpress.org/support/topic/40-upgrade-makes-all-plugins-disappear?replies=21

Apparently my theme Thesis and 4.0 don’t play nicely together. And no, they don’t have an answer right now. The geeks are our overlords.

Anyone have a Thesis account? Contact me. There’s a fix. I can’t seem to access it.

Geekish:

Themes

* Thesis 1.8.5 has assorted issues involving comments disappearing and reports of 500 server errors. Thesis has a fix for this.

Reported fix instructions:

NOTE: You must be using version 1.8.5 before deploying this fix; if you’re still using an outdated 1.x version, then you must update Thesis first.

1. Using FTP, navigate to the /wp-content/themes/thesis_185/lib/classes/ folder on your server.

2. Edit the comments.php file in the classes folder at line 187, instead of

$wp_query->comments_by_type = &separate_comments($wp_query->comments);
$_comments = $wp_query->comments_by_type['comment'];

you now write

$wp_query->comments_by_type = separate_comments($wp_query->comments);
$_comments = &$wp_query->comments_by_type['comment'];

The only change is moving the “&” to the $_comments-variable really but that seems to cause the 500 internal server errors.

Once you’ve followed these steps, check to see if your comments are now being displayed correctly.

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Comments

  1. Chump Lady says

    September 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    testing

    • Arnold says

      September 8, 2014 at 6:37 pm

      Earth to CL. Testing.

  2. JL says

    September 8, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    🙂

  3. TimeHeals says

    September 9, 2014 at 7:24 am

    Ok, what was it?

    A plug-in?

    • Chump Lady says

      September 9, 2014 at 9:55 am

      It was Thesis, my theme not playing nicely with WP 4.0.

      Just changed over to Genesis. Fuck Thesis.

  4. Luziana says

    September 9, 2014 at 7:33 am

    It’s up again! Yay!

  5. Luziana says

    September 9, 2014 at 7:34 am

    Forums are gone, though. 🙁

    • lovehonorcherish says

      September 9, 2014 at 7:57 am

      Forums really have disappeared? Thought it was something with my phone.

      • Luziana says

        September 9, 2014 at 8:58 am

        Forums are there now, just closer to the bottom of the sidebar. 🙂

  6. lovehonorcherish says

    September 9, 2014 at 7:54 am

    Yay! I can see and read the replies again ; )

  7. zyx321 says

    September 9, 2014 at 8:02 am

    Florida are there, just difficult to find.

    The log in is at the very bottom of the page.
    Then, once logged in, the liks are also at the bottom of the page.

    (Hope there are no typos in the first line. Typing o. My iPad, so the first line is within the black of the box; I cannot see my black colored text).

    • zyx321 says

      September 9, 2014 at 8:04 am

      Argghhh… Forums, not Florida. Darn autocorrect

      Also, this time I realized I could shift the page down and get the typing box out of the black border…..

  8. ForgeOn! says

    September 9, 2014 at 8:41 am

    Way to go, Tracy!! Once again, an over-comer! NEVER letting anything stand in the way of getting the message out.

    This blog still inspires me every day! And I wish to give a quick “Thank You” to all the ones who have included links in their comments. Have gotten needed info from many of those links. Or just a good laugh!! :O

    Forge on, CL……ForgeOn Nation!

  9. ForgeOn! says

    September 9, 2014 at 8:43 am

    And, big congrats to 3 MILLION PAGE VIEWS!

    Before you know it, it will be 4 mil!

  10. Datdamwuf says

    September 9, 2014 at 10:04 am

    You need to remove the text at the bottom of your page that says

    “This site rocks the Classic Responsive Skin for Thesis.”

  11. Datdamwuf says

    September 9, 2014 at 10:06 am

    I’m guessing there is no way to roll back to the previous version of WordPress…

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