There are a couple of problems one can encounter when installing, reinstalling or moving a WordPress blog. I have documented some I have met here and in a follow-up article here in German.
But as I had drafted some aspects of the second article in English, too, I will publish them here also in English. The German articles are much more extensive, though, and I suggest rather reading them.
II. Problems and Solutions
1. Strange Signs, Strange Words, Strange Numbers at the end of my URLs
1. E.g. “#.”, followed by other signs
The solution lies in disabling the track address bar shares-function of AddThis, cf. here.
2. E. g. ?doing_wp_cron=1351935560.6119229793548583984375
I thought it had vanished (in my case) after disabling Wassup, which was obviously running a lot of cronjobs.
But the phenomenon occurred again when I used Ajax Edit Comments, persisting while someone had posted a comment during the period in which it could be edited. That would mean if you have a lot of commentators, that might show a lot on that post. It may have been a coincidence, though as It may also occur with other plugins, see e.g. here.
So I had to speak to my web host, but loopbacks is enabled.
Finally, I found out here, that, although I could not find a trace of ALTERNATE_WP_CRON n the wp-config.php, it was set in the code-pages of the plugin. Apparently, the All in One Event Calendar plugin defines ALTERNATE_WP_CRON in a place I did not expect it to be. So I add to my wp-config.php the following line:
define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, false);
And the URLs look nice and clean again .
2. Visual Editor and Ultimate TinyMCE and TinyMCE Advanced Editors not showing
Although I activated Ultimate TinyMCE and then TinyMCE Advanced, I got no more buttons, nor (as I realised when comparing with my old setup) the visual editor.
I could resolve the latter by enabling again the visual editor in the user preferences (I might not have gotten there without a chain of hints here and here, then I would also have found the solution here).
3. Ultimate TinyMCE-bar “too wide”?
Just change the number of rows or open your browser wider (I really did not realise I could do that… done too much on the net, then?) – or choose the 1-column-view in WP (slider on top of the page). You could also add rows in the code, maybe.
When about two months ago my hitherto web space provider (I was so lucky to have a reseller account for free) returned his server, I had to seek a new home for my websites.
After a long quest, inter alia using Hostjury and Webhostingtalk to find a good new one, I decided in favour of MadGenius [Disclosure: Affiliate-Link]. And, indeed, as I had read, they provide quite a good service, even enabled a certain option, the possibility to switch off statistics for my German websites, especially for me, and the support is friendly, polite and helpful.
So I decided to move my blog, too.
I had hosted it with Hostingsociety before, a fully functional German free space provider without advertising on one’s site, and I still do like them, but for security reasons they had disabled a certain option (fsockopen() ) I prefer using.
After my move I finally could connect to Jetpack and use a couple of other (also: plugin) functionalities I could not before.
When reestablishing my blog, I encountered a few problems the solution of which I was glad to have documented before here. In addition, I will document solutions to a few further challenges in a follow-up article here.
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