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WordPress Wierdness

There are times where WordPress really tries my patience sometimes -- don't get me wrong, I love the software and wouldn't think of using anything else for the foreseeable future; however there are times it just seems to have a mind of its own or something.

I just stopped in to see the activity on my site only to find that my pages were gone, and plug-ins disabled.

Mischief abound.

And for no apparent reason it seems. Between last night and this morning, I’ve done nothing to the settings and now that I’ve stopped in, all hell has broken loose. thankfully the mischief was manageable and the problems have been corrected. But that still leaves me puzzled as to what went on between then and now.

I’ve just now backed up my database, changed my admin password, and exported all of my postings and bookmarks etc., which I have been dreadfully complacent in. Lesson learned. I’m going to start backing up my postings on a more regular basis.

In any case, I hope this is an isolated event, otherwise I might have some serious issues (related or unrelated to the software — I hope never to find out).

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Posted: December 7, 2007
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chaoskaizer
Date: December 12, 2007
Time: 5:40 am

I think you should upgrade to 2.3.1 there is some issue with XML-RPC check the support forums.

Any hint from the server logs.
Chris
Date: December 12, 2007
Time: 2:02 pm

I have 2.3.1 running on my site at the momment – but unfortunately I don’t have access to the logs on my server. Thanks for the head’s up though!
Chris
Date: December 13, 2007
Time: 9:26 am

Ack! So it looks like I’m using WordPress 2.2.x instead of 2.3.1 — looks like it’s time to upgrade — that and I found out that there are some issues with using Windows Live Writer with WordPress (has to do with the xmlrpc.php file).
Ben Bishop
Date: January 2, 2008
Time: 2:53 pm

It might be worth trying to automate your backups on a nightly basis.

There is a great plugin that does that here. Compatible with 2.3.1 too. I would love to take the credit for it but its not my work.

Good looking blog btw.
Chris
Date: January 2, 2008
Time: 2:58 pm

Hey Ben, so it looks like the problem resides in “wp-includes/class-IXR.php”, to which I found a potential solution here: “Windows Live Writer not uploading images to your WordPress blog? Here’s the fix.”. I’m going to see if it works later tonight, and if I can confirm the fix, I’ll let you know
Martin Weiss
Date: March 7, 2008
Time: 7:37 pm

I once also had a weird WP login screen. Turned out it only happened on a G5 iBook on FireFox…

http://modifoo.com/2008/02/03/weird-wordpress-login.html