May 18th, 2010 by Ken Shafer
Anyone else out there have the problem where your WordPress Dashboard doesn’t appear to be using and CSS and it just plain looks funky? I did. I just fixed it today (thank goodness).
Here’s what I did.
- Upgrade to the latest version of WordPress
- Upgrade all of your Plugin that can be upgraded
- I also found some weird “Hello Dolly” plugin that I deleted. (not sure that did anything but hey, stuff works now)
- Also, if you’re using IE8I had to click “Compatibility View” to get the post-new.php page to render.
Hope that helps! Good luck all!
UPDATE: This has not resolved all the issues on all of my WP sites. I’m still getting this error:
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:26:51 UTC
Message: Invalid character
Line: 1
Char: 11
Code: 0
URI: http://websitename.com/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=jquery,utils&ver=d24248fe4b0cd62086633fd42ef1019b
Message: Invalid character
Line: 1
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://websitename.com/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=hoverIntent,common,jquery-color,plugin-install,thickbox&ver=270b766b5bbb45d10ea674db3e4d0da3
The interesting thing is that I’m getting this error on admin panels that work and those that don’t so I can’t say for certain if this is actually the cause of the problem.
UPDATED AGAIN:
Ok. So now I’m deleting the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. I have downloaded a fresh version of WordPress and am in the process of re-uploading those folders. Fingers Crossed.
January 22nd, 2010 by Ken Shafer
Here are the articles I “starred” in my Google readers lists.
January 20th
One Giant Leap for Link Data: Announcing Open Site Explorer + Page/Domain Authority Metrics – Awesome tool. Making me consider becoming a Pro Member, honestly.
January 19th
Keyword Targeting: How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions – SEOMoz breaks down keyword research
January 18th
Browse American Eagle, Aerie Merchandise Directly From Your News Feed With New Widget – Finally an effective use of a Facebook widget
10 Professional Development Tips to Boost Your SEO Career – This sounded important so I starred it. I haven’t read it tho. Let me know how it is.
Link Building With Interviews: How Thought Leadership Builds Links & Leads – I really thought this was a neat idea and a good example of thinking out of the box. I’m definitely going to try to implement this with some of my projects.
That’s it for this week folks! If you’ve got something you think I should read, just lemme know.
Thanks!
January 11th, 2010 by Ken Shafer
Ever fallen prey to the “physician, heal thyself” rut where you seem to work on so many other projects that you can’t ever seem to find time to get your own stuff up and running?
Well, that was pretty much all of 2009 for me.
I think the last real post was sometime in March of ’09 or something. Yeesh!
In an effort to change to change all that in 2010, I’ve completely wiped out my old site and and currently in the process of back-filling all my old blog posts into WordPress here.
It’s actually terribly interesting (to me) to go back and look how my thoughts and opinions have changed since I last started blogging regularly. I use the word “terribly” since I don’t necessarily agree with everything I thought a year ago. So much changes so quickly in this industry. Maybe I wouldn’t have been so hard on some people (I said “maybe”), for example.
Well, there it is. The Mea Culpa to myself for letting this go for so long. Please pardon the generic WordPress theme for now. I’ll be trying to personalize stuff as much as possible over the next few weeks.
Thanks for reading everyone!
January 25th, 2008 by Ken Shafer
It’s holiday time again. Just wanted to thank everyone who’s been reading (even Grehan) and who’s been following on Twitter. I also wanted to say how glad I am if any of my posts have helped in any way.
I look forward to a fantastico 2009!
- knit hat
