Site weirdness aggregator.
December 6, 2007, 8:44 am
Posted by Grant Gallicho
So, we made the big switch to dotCommonweal 1.5–apparently without a major hitch. We’ve already addressed a handful of minor problems, but if you encounter any more, please let us know in the comment boxes below. (If you find that the site is not displaying correctly in Safari or Firefox [Mac], as I’ve experienced, try holding down the SHIFT key while clicking RELOAD in your browser. That clears the cache, and seems to do the trick.)
Also: you’ll have to resubscribe to our RSS feed.
So far, so good. Wrote a post with bold, posted it, deleted it. Here I will see if the new HTML tags in the comments boxes are working..
Grant, will I have to clear the Firefox cache every time I enter the site? That could prove tiresome. Is it fixable?
BTW, I was checking the comment queue and was amazed at the amount of spam. Do you have to clear that all manually? It must be an enormous amount of work.
Okay, this is cool. Much, much easier to use than the previous interface. Very nice job, Grant.
You should only have to clear the cache once, Peter. Let me know if that’s not working for you. We were assaulted by a comment spambot yesterday, but I doubt they’ll follow us to the new system. If they do, we’ll figure something out.
Grant: My problem is that, in order to comment, I have to re-log in each and every time. The site never seems to remember me.
That’s strange. I haven’t been able to reproduce that. Is that the case with all your browsers (IE, Firefox)? Anyone else having that problem?
It’s working for us former shut-outs!! Thanks.
What’s an RSS feed and how do we re-subscribe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
How it works depends on what browser you use. Google around; you should find some better instructions than I could offer.
I use the Bloglines aggregator to keep up with various blogs and newsfeeds. It’s pretty intuitive and I’m satisfied with it, but I think Google is going after that market too.
What is a slug?
Let’s see how this works.
Thanks for the update, by the way.
Hi Grant
This is atest,test,test
Peter, funny you should mention spam comments in the queue. They were a discovery to me on my Tomorrow’s Trust education blog. And yes I removed them manually until they became too burdensome. I got the service provider to put in a blocker which worked really well. That is until yesterday and then it worked too well; it blocked access to me. (now stop laughing)
To gain access the webmaster had to remove the blocker. He has since put a different blocker in. Then it changed my password. (sigh) I managed with a little luck to find a way around that but machines can really be dumb sometimes.
Grant: The Ads by Google column entirely takes up my screen when I first get to the site. At first, I thought there was something wrong with the site, until I scrolled down, and saw everything was as before. Not everyone, however, may be as persistent.
Did you hold SHIFT and click RELOAD?
Duh! My bad. I read the website with Explorer at home and Firefox at work. Sorry, I completely forgot the content of your original post (since it was not relevant at home), and simply remembered Grant’s Weirdness Aggregator. Plus, my grande blackeye was not yet fully consumed.
Does anyone know what a slug (in this context, of course) is?
Is RELOAD the same thing as REFRESH in Windows?
It seems you can “time out” after logging in. Or is there another explanation for the following?
A couple of times, I have been logged in and taken a long time to complete messages. Then when I pressed Submit Comment, I got the “You must be logged in to make a comment” message, and the messages I had been trying to submit were lost.
Fr. Komonchak
Here is a definition of slug:
Slug
A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page. Slugs are usually a URL friendly version of the post title (which has been automatically generated by WordPress), but a slug can be anything you like. Slugs are meant to be used with permalinks as they help describe what the content at the URL is.
Example post permalink: http://wordpress.org/development/2006/06/wordpress-203/
The slug for that post is “wordpress-203″.
More here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary
Thanks, Kathy. It’s mostly Greek to me…
David, check your cookie settings. That’s never happened to me (across three browsers on both Mac and Windows).
Fr. Komonchak:
ekrupsas tauta apo sophwn kai sunetwn kai apekalupsas auta napiois
Kathy: Same to you.
Just wondering if superscripts1 work. Some HTML tags seem to work, and others don’t.