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This site is going to be on and off line and themes may change today as I try to debug a couple of problems in the site.

I have a couple of RL projects to work on. They have a tight time line. So, I won’t be around SL much this next week (42).

See you when I get back.

Well, it’s fixed again. Most of the time fixing this problem was spent in setting up a test frame. I had to get MySQL set up. Then get PHP set up. Then install Apache HTTP server. Then get those integrated. It has been probably three years since I set these up last. Lots has changed.

Then I found out that WordPress has import and export problems. My blog’s database is only about 13 MB. Depending on your web host, max file size for an upload via WordPress import/export is 2 to 10 MB.

Most of the web tutorials that show how these things are set up are way out of date now. So, I had to figure out all the bugs and gotchas and clean those up before I could even start looking for my problem. Whatever, now have a working test frame.

Once I had the test frame, it didn’t take very long to find the problem and get it fixed. It seems the new WordPress and my theme don’t get along very well. So, I’ve got some sections that apparently need to be rewritten. Or… Maybe I’ll just make a new theme.

As Pandora Wriggleswort pointed out the articles are not printing when pulled up. I was playing with a new plugin yesterday. But, removing it has not resolved the problem. I have backups of my theme. Restoring it hasn’t fixed it. So, I’m still tracking down the problem.

Since a different theme works, I’ll have this one up until I figure out what happened.

I haven’t moved my test frame for themes over to my Win7 setup. So, this may take some time. Or I may adapt a new responsive design to my site. I’ve been thinking about it.

Friday I sort of broke the blog. I added some debugging code to help with a problem I was trying to solve. When just reading the blog, you probably wouldn’t notice a problem. I didn’t until I was away from home this weekend. Then other problems kept me from fixing it via remote login to my work machine.

There is a problem with WordPress’ sharing that is built into Jetpack. You only see the problem when you write or read a multi-page post and you are using sharing features of Jetpack. The text I use on this site looks as you see in the image above: Pages: 1 2. That line of text and links is created by a WordPress function: wp_link_pages(). On the home page it works well. 

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I originally intended for this blog to be a reference tool for myself.  People started reading it, seemed to enjoy it, and it became whatever it is today. But, there is a lot of great information in here. The problem is finding it.

I added the standard CATEGORIES widget in the left column. That gets you the main topics. But, that can still be a lot to look through and looking though 8 items per page can be tedious. Plus I tend to take periods were I run things together. Pathfinding and SSA get mixed in with other news.

I added the menu to some of the more popular things I and others are interested in. If you haven’t clicked a menu, you are missing out. 

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