Comments on: Mysterious Wordpress and Podpress problems

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:02:47 +0000

Alan– You are correct, the problems are resolved…. Turns out John was correct that it was server-side stuff by my ISP (siteground) - not php or mySQL tho– they had implemented a server protection solution to protect against a Zero Day Attack threat, which I do not entirely understand and follow– but basically after I submitted the trouble ticket to them, they performed “the magic” which fixed all the problems, on all the blogs. So that is a relief. And, whatever they did is also permitting MarsEdit to post fine to the latest WP version. So life (in terms of blog woes) is now back to “outstanding.”

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:47:25 +0000

Am not seeing any dots so appears to be fixed. I can only guess, but doubt podpress as a plugin is to blame since the content is being rendered prior to an WP code. There is a small chance the ISP may have in advertant junk going out as in PHP headers. I might have tested with a simple PHP page (not Wordpress) that just was a hello world sort of thing- this would have helped isolate if it was WP or PHP.

Other things to look at might be your main index.php file in Wordpress to see that there is not extra junk- since it was appearing on all templates.

I tired of PodPress– way too bloated code and frequent updates, and it wracked a few site templates. I use Anarchy Media Player, but it was a royal pain to update 40 some old entries since PodPress stores its content in database tables, as opposed to most media players which simply scan the content and create media players for any URL to a media file.

By: Wesley Fryer

Wesley Fryer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:23:12 +0000

I submitted a trouble ticket this morning to sitegrounds, hopefully they’ll respond soon. Glad to know you had similar issues, not because I want someone else to have issues– but it’s good to know I’m not alone. I agree a PHP or mySQL change seems to be the most logical explanation for these problems, since I hadn’t made configuration changes on my end. I REALLY hope these can get resolved so I won’t have to abandon Podpress. I really like using it, and really do NOT want to go back and change so many podcast links both on my blog and in my podcast feed… When I learn more I’ll post about it here on this post as additional comments. Thanks for letting me know you saw similar problems from siteground hosted WP blogs.

By: John Pederson

John Pederson — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:05:29 +0000

I had similar stuff going on with my sites yesterday morning. Siteground hosting. It took them a few hours to get things straightened out, but things did come around.

I’m wondering if there was some “under the cover” PHP or MySQL patch applied that caused issues.

By: Charlie Roy

Charlie Roy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:42:12 +0000

I recently set up a wordpress blog for a unit on commodity trading i will be teaching to our senior economics classes. I run a few blogs using blogger and after a week of frustration with similar stylistic issues i decided to just transfer the content to blogger. I did. I like the look of wordpress pages but find blogger easier to use.

By: Eric M.

Eric M. — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:34:45 +0000

I don’ see the dots across your blog. However, I do see them on your , along with the message “header already sent”, and seemingly nothing else (though you should view source on that page). The problem might not be with Wordpress at all, and maybe your web host changed a setting in their php configuration.