Stupidoo!!!

[update, again: Now I think it's for sure the visitor-maps. I was searching asianfontpack problem and was linked back to my own blog entry (amazing, is it not?) and my blog wasn't working. I renamed the visitor-maps plugin folder and got Stupidoo back and running.]

[update: I wanted to reproduce the problem so I renamed them back and the pages are still showing. I'll try again later. Maybe it's a hiccup since I still got pageviews from yesterday.]

I wanted to post my dual (extended) screenshot and found the Stupidoo was        . (yes, you got it right, bbbb..lank)

This came as a shock to me. I am not that kind of person who do too much self-promotion but I do want my blog up and running when I want it to. So I googled and people are saying all sorts of difficult things. Of course it’s something that I have upgraded the other day…which is like 2 days ago already. (Sorry to have disrupted your lives here. I know some of you wouldn’t be able to finish your bowl of rice without reading my blog.)

So I used gFTP to connect to my hosting provider (bluehost.com) and renamed the newly installed plugins one by one. On second one I got lucky and it was the visitor-maps that’s causing the problem. You see, I sorted it by date and renamed them as below:

Oh, and I get to use the category WordPress Stupidity, which I haven’t for a while. (I know it’s not WP. I like WP. It’s just it’s the closest category here on list.)

After couple of hours of searching, I had to give up Arras theme for now because I couldn’t figure out where to put the pictures with each post. It would be nice to be able to do so easily, right?

I know it’s either my stupidity or someone else’s, but this should be a lot easier. If I can do it, then Johnny can. If even me as a computer guy can not do it, what a shame!! (I’ll drink less local beer but for aging, I can’t do a thing.)

(Part 1 is here)

My images not showing was caused by theme folder permissions. I use BlueHost and I found that the permissions setting was different from the ones showing image (default and classic). With my FTP client software I changed the permissions to be the same as default theme and ….VALA!!

This guy has a good instruction but it didn’t work for me. The problem s/he was having was the images not showing in previewing the them; mine had five themes installed. The solution was to modify the folder names. Mine didn’t work with the folder renaming and some of the troubling folders had perfect names (no space in name). I renamed and re-upload the theme and didn’t see any change. I was uploading the themes for the second one and happened to see the permissions of the working ones (Default + Classic) were different from the broken ones. I modified the permissions and it worked like a charm.

Here’s how the permission part looks like. I left the Arclite unchanged so you can see the difference.

To combine with the symptoms I saw (I know a table would summarize better but WP is not my good friend yet):

I was having trouble with showing images in WordPress and my friend Google was helping me without too much fruitful results. I inserted images and they were simply not showing. I check the HTML codes and they looked fine and showing the correct path (file path/position corresponding with the paths I saw with my FTP). I knew that the files were there, but a direct browsing link gave me a permission denied message.

I came back to check the permalink options in WordPress… … …
… …WHY in the world would you give me permalink options when only one of them would show images?

Okay, okay. It could be someone else’s fault. Bluehost, maybe? Anyway, I don’t think I was the only one to have this not-so-smart problem. My point is, if I as a computer guy is having this problem, how would you expect others to fully take advantage of the information technologies?

Oh…I take it back. (sh…job security)