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OTB WordPress Update

Let us know if anything’s broken.

James Joyner
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We’ve just been updated to the latest WordPress install. My guess is that it’ll mostly impact the front-pagers, as the writing interface is radically different. But let us know here if anything seems broken that was working before.

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12 responses to “OTB WordPress Update”

  1. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    Just testing the commenting feature.

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  2. SKI Avatar
    SKI

    Just checking to see if the name/email fields are back to being sticky…

    Edited to add: Alas, they are not 🙁

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  3. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    @SKI: Yeah, I have no idea why they’re broken. The problem is that, with so many ways of accessing the site, it’s potentially a very expensive problem to track down when you’re paying by the hour.

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  4. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    Check to see if preview function works: No, sadly, it doesn’t.

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  5. Kylopod Avatar
    Kylopod

    Just checking to see if the upvotes stay visible after a refresh. No, they don’t. Like before, new upvotes only appear after a new comment is posted to a thread.

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  6. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    @Kylopod: I’ll pass this along but, unlike the auto fill of commenting info, I haven’t experienced this. I suspect it’s also a function of different interfaces but upvotes work for me on PC, laptop, and iPhone.

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  7. SKI Avatar
    SKI

    @James Joyner: They work in terms of counting your vote but the count next to the vote, indicating how many overall up/down votes a comment has, becomes invisible if you refresh the page – until someone posts another comment.

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  8. Teve Avatar
    Teve

    I reloaded the site and I can still see a photo of Mitch McConnell’s face so I’m going to say Broken.

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  9. rachel Avatar
    rachel

    Is Doug OK?

  10. Richard Gardner Avatar
    Richard Gardner

    All good here on OTB. But I’ve been seen lots of issues (WordPress and otherwise) the past 3 weeks on other sites. I’ve been getting “Loading Site” and such. There is something unstable on the interwebs.
    And for rachel – see post earlier today about DougM = OK.

  11. Franklin Avatar
    Franklin

    @rachel: In case you missed this update …

  12. Michael Cain Avatar
    Michael Cain

    But I’ve been seen lots of issues (WordPress and otherwise) the past 3 weeks on other sites.

    A few months ago the operators of a site I spend lots of time with convinced me to volunteer my time to help port a bunch of useful but unsupported WordPress plugins to their new install. I can confidently state that WordPress has managed to reproduce all of the blunders in software development platforms from the 1990s. Starting with their “White Screen of Death” and moving on from there.

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