Craig Hamnett
Social Media Layabout
General
Blank Pages in Wordpress when changing themes
Jul 4th
Whoopsie, I broke my Wordpress installation (it’s fixed now obviously!) I switched to another theme/template and when it tried to refresh both the frontend, and admin area were just blank.
Going through the path of logic, I started at the beginning to find the bottleneck. The “index.php” file was fine, this then requires “wp-blog-header.php” which in turn requires “wp-load.php”. From then on I was just blagging my way through, because at that point I got lost. Logic isn’t my strongpoint.
Anyways, it turns out to be a theme problem, here’s the fix.
- Login to your phpMyAdmin and select your Wordpress database.
- Go to the wp_options table.
- Find option_id 49 and 50 which relate to the template and stylesheet.
- Change these to another template which you had installed, or if you still have default installed, just change the value of these fields to “default” without the quotes.
Then simply visit your website and things should load normally!
Lance Armstrong’s Bike Stolen
Feb 15th
Lance Armstrong has had his bike trial bike stolen and there is a reward for the safe return of it. The bike is unique, one of a kind, with a picture below:
You can see Lance Armstrong’s Twitter status on this here: http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong/status/1212580498
Once again, we can see the power that Twitter has to break news! Please Retweet and spread the news.
Wait, it’s fate… this update’s late mate!
Jan 29th
Yeah, I know! A couple of things made it super easy though…
The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin and the awesome Agregado theme (meaning “syndicated” in Portuguese) from Darren Hoyt. Wordpress is now flowing smoothly in 2.7 goodness, taggy goodness, commentable goodness, lifestreamy goodness etc etc!
Just released a new website at work which you should definitely check out. It’s about fractional ownership, albeit the slight variation is that it’s split into way more affordable fractions and called Select Ownership! Props to the design team, Ben, Joe and the unrelenting grafter, Matt!
Times are a changin’
Nov 27th
New job, new house, new year, new outlook, new priorities. Lots of things are changing and moving forward in life. Lots of exciting things to look forward too! And I’ve just managed to do 50% of my Christmas shopping in the past half an hour, bargain!
Google Haunted House 404
Oct 21st
Are you getting a 404 error on the Google homepage link? The link in question is:
Apparently it is an issue which is only affecting countries outside the US. To take a look at what should be there visit this proxy or any proxy based in the US:
Choose the “United States”, enter the URL, “www.google.com” and click on the link on the Google Homepage.
I’ll see if I can find out more about why this is happening or whether Google are purposefully restricting people outside the US.