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WordPress Problems Solved

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I had a couple problems with WordPress this evening and thought it would be beneficial for others to post the answers I found.

  1. After upgrading to a new version of WordPress, even a nightly version, Internet Explorer tries to download / and presents a dialog box that says, unable to download / from bloggingpro.com. Firefox works fine. The answer is to make sure you run wp-admin/upgrade.php after every upgrade.
  2. At the end of my dated archives list was a zero. To get rid of it I had to go to into my database and sort in wp_posts the post_date column in ascending order. I then deleted a post that had a date of 0000-00-00 00:00:00. I have no idea how the post date got warped but I chose to delete the post. I could of just fixed the date I suppose.

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  1. Willful Expose' says: 3/2/2005

    Nice to have that fixed. My feed reader uses IE. Thanks for the great site.

  2. Ray says: 3/3/2005

    Excuse my ignorance, but are the two steps required, or is it an either or situation? I have no idea how to edit the database, and I’m running in to this problem, so I’m curious how to deal with it

  3. John says: 3/3/2005

    Ray, are you talking about problem #2? If so, I don’t know any other way to fix the zero in the dated archives but to delete or fix the date problem. I used phpMyAdmin to access the database and locate the offending post.

  4. FilSchiesty says: 3/3/2005

    Thanks so much for the IE fix. I obviously overlooked that step of running “upgrade.php” after my recent 1.5 upgrade.
    Maybe I’ll get my IE readers back!

  5. dp says: 3/3/2005

    Ha!

    I had exactly the same problem, and someone pointed out the upgrade.php step in a speedy reply over at the wordpress forum. That’s what we get for not reading the instructions!

    Glad to see I can now access your full posts (via IE) again.

    Keep up the great work John.