Comments on: Weird tech problems on Lost Remote

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:32:38 +0000

Perhaps, you could hardcode the links instead of having them point to a relative URL.

( had an example, but somehing at the comment)

By: Safran

Safran — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:51:47 +0000

This place has gone to hell since I left.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:27:58 +0000

I don’t think the nav problem is with the http://www. I tried both ways and I cant get to The Wire…

By: Mike Escutia

Mike Escutia — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:36:32 +0000

Sounds like you just need to set a canonical hostname so that “lostremote.com” forwards to “www.lostremote.com” (or vice-versa).

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:25:20 +0000

Thanks, Amanda! That’s it!

Nav is breaking for people who visit http://lostremote.com as opposed to http://www.lostremote.com.

Also, the & thing is very interesting, don’t know if I can fix that.

Thanks all!

By: Testing

Testing — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:09:34 +0000

Ok, I found it! If the URL contains an ampersand (”&”), the comment won’t go through.

By: Amanda E.

Amanda E. — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:07:57 +0000

Cory, sent you an email explaining what your problem is and a fix for it since the spam filter will block it.

By: Testing

Testing — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:06:48 +0000

Ok, here’s a very long URL…

By: Testing

Testing — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:05:09 +0000

If this comment goes through, I guess I have to reevaluate what it is in the URL that makes certain comments not go through. The overall length of the URL, perhaps?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:03:21 +0000

It’s been my experience that if the URL field contains a query string, such as a Google Maps address would, the comment doesn’t go through.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:01:26 +0000

Don’t know what the deal is (I’m not seeing any problems), but it’s never a bad idea to keep your WordPress install current. Take it from Al Gore.

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:17:53 +0000

Ugh, how strange. My comments file, by the way, is massive, and I had to do a MySQL repair on it last week.

Thanks for your help, I’ll keep working on this…

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:59:02 +0000

I noticed this just now … if I have LostRemote opened up in a tabbed browser if I try and comment on a story it won’t publish my comment.

Also for some reason I had a Url in the submission box for a comment I was posting about TiVos for Cougars and the comment wasn’t accepted. I took out the Url and it worked fine. For reference it was an address on Google Maps.

Not sure if that helps or not.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:27:41 +0000

This seems like an obvious question but is the link healthy? I pasted the “resources” link address (http://lwww.lostremote.com/?page_id=5) into Safari (I usually use FF where I experience the problem) and the home page came up. Perhaps the links weren’t updated during your last “put” to the server? Or if you’re using a wysiwyg program there may have been an errant point or paste.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:51:01 +0000

Amanda, are you using AdBlock? The ?page_id= links weren’t working for me before, but they are now. It seemed like there basically just wasn’t the server-side code there to look for that query string and return the relevant result.

Also, any idea why there’s occasionally someone else’s name, and sometimes other fields, filled in for me in the comment form?

And finally, it’s URL, not Url!