I’ve been having some backend issues with the website: page links, comments, etc. aren’t working, and for a while today the site was completely inaccessible. I’m trying to get it all fixed, but until I do things won’t be working properly, and the site may be down from time to time.
Update, 2/11: I’ve had a talented PHP expert working on the site since yesterday (details to follow), and things are nearly all fixed.
Further update: On my son Nick’s recommendation I went to a freelance-gig website called Fiverr, and found a top-rated WordPress/PHP developer named Muhammad Ali, who works out of Pakistan. This WordPress site uses a custom theme that was written by a friend ages ago, and some things had fallen so far behind the latest versions of WordPress and PHP that the site finally crashed. Within hours (and in the middle of the night over there) he had found and fixed all the problems. The only lingering issue is with a completely obsolete plugin called “In-Series” which is what I’ve been using to create linked series of posts (such as my “Pilgrim’s Progress” series, and the series of posts covering our exchanges with Michael Anton). At the moment those series links no longer work, but I have the necessary information in the site databases to recreate them once I find a more modern post-series WordPress plugin, so I ought to be able to fix that myself.
I highly recommend Muhammad if you have need of services like this. His Fiverr profile is here.
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appears to be working at this time
It has worked fine for me. Uninterrupted service and access.
I notice links previously pulled and cached by my self-hosted web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator (tt-rss) are now broken. Of course, this only applies to old links pulled and cached prior to the “new and improved” Motus Mentis.
Eample of what I’m typing about… Original pulled and cached link of the the post ‘Lara Logan En Fuego!‘ was:
https://malcolmpollack.com/2022/03/17/lara-logan-en-fuego/
Same post link now:
https://malcolmpollack.com/lara-logan-en-fuego/
Just a FYI and FWIW.
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martywd,
Thanks for that! That might mean that internal links are broken too. I will look into it.
martywd,
Yes, the post links were broken too. I think it’s fixed now.
@Malcolm–Yes, the post links were broken too. I think it’s fixed now.
Yes, checking some my aggregator’s links including the one mentioned above, all original links to this site are working as expected once again.
Nice work! ;-)
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