{"id":278,"date":"2008-08-12T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=278"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:59:18","slug":"wordpress-the-ultimate-learning-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"WordPress, the ultimate learning experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think maybe I&#8217;m ready to peddle myself as a WordPress guru.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, a guru in training, at any rate.\u00c2\u00a0 The weird problems I have plowed through in the past couple years of WP blogging have been&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 educational.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Day100, Once a Dork\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98259649@N00\/2733273194\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 0px 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3113\/2733273194_20ceff5645_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Day100, Once a Dork\" width=\"192\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>A few days ago, I was getting &#8220;500 internal server&#8221; errors on this blog and my tattoo blog.\u00c2\u00a0 The tattoo blog proved to be a relatively easy fix (the .htaccess file was messed up).\u00c2\u00a0 But this one&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 wouldn&#8217;t fix no matter what I tried.\u00c2\u00a0 So I called my web host&#8217;s tech support.<\/p>\n<p>The helpful tech I talked with agreed that the problem was likely the .htaccess file here, too, and said he&#8217;d fix it.\u00c2\u00a0 I thanked him, he fixed it, everything worked fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Phew.\u00c2\u00a0 Thought that was the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, trying to add this blog to TwitterFeed, I discovered that (a) in copying over the sig from my tattoo blog I had stupidly not changed the feed link and (b) the RSS link in the banner didn&#8217;t work.\u00c2\u00a0 Fixing the sig was no problem, after I quit whapping myself on the head, but I was out of my league on the RSS link issue.<\/p>\n<p>So this time my first line of approach was to post a message in the WordPress support forums, which are without a doubt THE best source for WordPress answers.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially for off-the-wall problems like this.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems like no matter what the problem might be, someone there has the answer that works.<\/p>\n<p>Which was the case this time&#8211;within a very short time span I got help.\u00c2\u00a0 And it turned out to be a host problem once again, not anything within WP.\u00c2\u00a0 And thus nothing I could fix.\u00c2\u00a0 So I called the host again.<\/p>\n<p>They said they&#8217;d run some diagnostics on the site and email me the results.\u00c2\u00a0 I have not yet gotten the email, but everything appears to be working just fine now.\u00c2\u00a0 My blogs back themselves up automatically once a day, but I think I&#8217;d better go run another backup now.<br \/>\n<small><a title=\"Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> photo credit: <a title=\"The Flooz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98259649@N00\/2733273194\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Flooz<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think maybe I&#8217;m ready to peddle myself as a WordPress guru.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, a guru in training, at any rate.\u00c2\u00a0 The weird problems I have plowed through in the past couple years of WP blogging have been&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 educational. 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