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Connection problems.

Slap bang in the middle of the wordpress problem, my broadband went down.
Now, I was trying to get my netbooks to talk to my wireless router, so I thought I was dealing with a machine problem.
Turns out that the phone was off as well. Quick call to talktalk, and it’s a “cable fault”, already being investigated.
Phone and broadband off for at least 5 hours..


Byq292u
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Connection problems.

Slap bang in the middle of the wordpress problem, my broadband went down.
Now, I was trying to get my netbooks to talk to my wireless router, so I thought I was dealing with a machine problem.
Turns out that the phone was off as well. Quick call to talktalk, and it’s a “cable fault”, already being investigated.
Phone and broadband off for at least 5 hours..


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Wordbay problem.

Inexplicably, Wordbay stopped working across all my sites on unlimited last week.
Not only that, but it took out all sites with it installed.
Had to rename wordbay folder via FTP to get back in.
Quick e-mail to Mark Daniels (wordbay developer), and he’s as puzzled as me.
It does point to a change at Unlimited, but they say no..

Anyway, It works if I switch off geo-location. Mark’s changing the code for version 1.6, out soon.

10/10 for support, Mark!


Byq292u
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Wordbay problem.

Inexplicably, Wordbay stopped working across all my sites on unlimited last week.
Not only that, but it took out all sites with it installed.
Had to rename wordbay folder via FTP to get back in.
Quick e-mail to Mark Daniels (wordbay developer), and he’s as puzzled as me.
It does point to a change at Unlimited, but they say no..

Anyway, It works if I switch off geo-location. Mark’s changing the code for version 1.6, out soon.

10/10 for support, Mark!


Byq292u
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Wordbay problem.

Inexplicably, Wordbay stopped working across all my sites on unlimited last week.
Not only that, but it took out all sites with it installed.
Had to rename wordbay folder via FTP to get back in.
Quick e-mail to Mark Daniels (wordbay developer), and he’s as puzzled as me.
It does point to a change at Unlimited, but they say no..

Anyway, It works if I switch off geo-location. Mark’s changing the code for version 1.6, out soon.

10/10 for support, Mark!


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WordPress 3.1.2 Upgrade

Upgraded all sites to wordpress 3.1.2 last week.
Tested all sites: OK.
Of course, on Saturday, I find that one of the sites has fallen over with a memory allocation error in wp-db.php, which is in the WordPress core directory..

Quick e-mail to unlimited support who confirm that nothing has changed at their end.

So that means it’s either a problem with 3.1.2, or one of the plugins. Only solution: disable all plugins, and re-enable one by one, testing site as we go.

Eventually traced to “efficient related posts” plugin.
Site back up and running in a few minutes. Sorted.


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WordPress 3.1.2 Upgrade

Upgraded all sites to wordpress 3.1.2 last week.
Tested all sites: OK.
Of course, on Saturday, I find that one of the sites has fallen over with a memory allocation error in wp-db.php, which is in the WordPress core directory..

Quick e-mail to unlimited support who confirm that nothing has changed at their end.

So that means it’s either a problem with 3.1.2, or one of the plugins. Only solution: disable all plugins, and re-enable one by one, testing site as we go.

Eventually traced to “efficient related posts” plugin.
Site back up and running in a few minutes. Sorted.


Byq292u
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WordPress 3.1.2 Upgrade

Upgraded all sites to wordpress 3.1.2 last week.
Tested all sites: OK.
Of course, on Saturday, I find that one of the sites has fallen over with a memory allocation error in wp-db.php, which is in the WordPress core directory..

Quick e-mail to unlimited support who confirm that nothing has changed at their end.

So that means it’s either a problem with 3.1.2, or one of the plugins. Only solution: disable all plugins, and re-enable one by one, testing site as we go.

Eventually traced to “efficient related posts” plugin.
Site back up and running in a few minutes. Sorted.


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Moving WordPress sites to new hosting..

Due to a) holidays, b) four Bank holidays, and c) my old web hosting deal expiring next week, I was left with two-and-a-half working days to transfer three WordPress sites onto Unlimited Web Hosting..

Having done this sort of thing in the past (chronicled on this very blog), I thought it’d be a breeze. Backup all files via FTP, dump the databases, and then reload at the other end. Wrong.

Glitch #1. Can’t get the data out of jabweb. My databases are humungous, and timeout their export function. Tried everything, including wp-db-backup. (5 hours!)

Eventually got them to “fix” export.php.

Glitch #2. Can’t import the database files at Unlimited. Format error. Damn.

So I got on to Unlimited Support. (always excellent), and they said, “we’ll do it for you”. So they did.
(Apparently one of my database files is “massive”.)

Obviously, the new sites were not linked-to by DNS yet, so I edited my hosts file
I FTP’d the files over to all three sites.

Datafeedr had lost all data on all three sites. Bizarre. Manually re-created the ad groups. (Stored in wp-options as one record, by the way..)
One site appeared to have “lost” it’s background. Seems to be a problem with Opera – it’s fine on Chrome.
But one site had the dreaded “internal server 500 error”.
Quick e-mail to Unlimited again, and the problem is traced to the .htaccess file.
Deleted it, and replaced it with a blank, then updated wordpress permalinks, and it’s up.

Swapped all DNS to Unlimited.

Now, it’ll take a WHILE for the DNS servers to calm down, but it doesn’t matter as the OLD version is still a functioning website. To my users, it’s seamless..

Done. 🙂


Byq292u
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Moving WordPress sites to new hosting..

Due to a) holidays, b) four Bank holidays, and c) my old web hosting deal expiring next week, I was left with two-and-a-half working days to transfer three WordPress sites onto Unlimited Web Hosting..

Having done this sort of thing in the past (chronicled on this very blog), I thought it’d be a breeze. Backup all files via FTP, dump the databases, and then reload at the other end. Wrong.

Glitch #1. Can’t get the data out of jabweb. My databases are humungous, and timeout their export function. Tried everything, including wp-db-backup. (5 hours!)

Eventually got them to “fix” export.php.

Glitch #2. Can’t import the database files at Unlimited. Format error. Damn.

So I got on to Unlimited Support. (always excellent), and they said, “we’ll do it for you”. So they did.
(Apparently one of my database files is “massive”.)

Obviously, the new sites were not linked-to by DNS yet, so I edited my hosts file
I FTP’d the files over to all three sites.

Datafeedr had lost all data on all three sites. Bizarre. Manually re-created the ad groups. (Stored in wp-options as one record, by the way..)
One site appeared to have “lost” it’s background. Seems to be a problem with Opera – it’s fine on Chrome.
But one site had the dreaded “internal server 500 error”.
Quick e-mail to Unlimited again, and the problem is traced to the .htaccess file.
Deleted it, and replaced it with a blank, then updated wordpress permalinks, and it’s up.

Swapped all DNS to Unlimited.

Now, it’ll take a WHILE for the DNS servers to calm down, but it doesn’t matter as the OLD version is still a functioning website. To my users, it’s seamless..

Done. 🙂


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