alugonja

Any Experience with wordpress is precious.
Take care

I have been looking at the PageLines platform Pro for a while now. Like premiumwp said it seemed like an advanced framework. But there is however part that, oh well, sucks big times.

When they started promoting their product they said that Platform is great for developers who know how to code and just want to jump in at adding more advanced features. They are selling Developer pro license for $250 plus $20 bucks a month.

Now, as developer, it does not seem that you can develop anything. You can extend css or make child theme but you can not dive into the framework. Well, that just suck.

So at the end, you will end up paying for some product that will eventually screw you at some point. Their politics really made me mad. Platform looks nice, but there is just not enough what you can do with it.

Specially NOT for that price since there is no way for you to sell your theme work.

LOL
well sure they did make you a party time.

But, what I mentioned earlier in conversation, we are always going to be facing some stupid “little” problems. The only way to live is more you grow more you know. Learning every day.

So the bottom line is, you gotta love it.

take care

Hey fiebeno
so what happened?

dont worry about that.
Just try it out. You can always put your old theme back. It does depend of the complexity but I am sure you would be able to adjust what ever you need with almost any widget/layout.

True.

But it was initialy wp3.0. After 3.1 I did fresh install since I was setting MU. I was reading about old 2.x days (I felt like I was lucky to start with 3.x)
This really freaked me out though.

Now, I am using multiDB, so it is possible that something happened in the moment of db switching, but code was initialy developed by Justin Vincent and it seemes to be working great. He is one hell of developer anyway…

I dont know. I will keep an eye on it and will publish an article if I figure what the problem was.
Thank you Ipstenu, you should feel like a wp Rock STAR ??

take care

So this was my biggest fear.
I reinstalled entire MU network again. Same setup 1 on 1.
Everything is working just fine now.

Which, really makes me unhappy, since I realized there was an underlying problem I was not able to control. I will join beta testers group sometimes soon and I will try to recreate encoding problems. I hope I will find out what exactly happened.

WordPress does it’s job great. There is no reason, on application level, that it should be running slow. Now, it is hard to say it for sure, but most likely nothing should be wrong with your instance of wordpress. I assume you are using current versions and all..

I would check php and mySql layers. See if all versions are fine with each other. Most likely it should be fine but you never know.

Also, I would try different themes. Maybe you tried that already. Maybe try to load external jQuery and script library. Use some blank theme.
toolBox, or similar.

It is rare case so we may assume that it is not wordpress. So keep taking apart everything else…

WOW,
that is long. Do you have any other worpress sites running fine?
What did your ISP said?
It could be that your hosting plan is bad. Do you have your own cPanel or just an FTP folder access?

In my language there are few special characters
(?,?,?,?,?) and that is breaking up.

Usually, well until just now, it all worked well when using utf-8

Weird is for example, that if I put it directly into database everything is fine. But when I insert it through wordpress post form it breaks.
So, I think, it has to be wordpress that is changing encoding even though it is set to utf-8. I am afraid I will still bump into this even if I reinstall everything.

If you are willing I would gladly hire you to help me out.

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci');

this is that part of my wp-config file. I did try all combinations with and without it. No results.
I do not see where problem could be at all?

ok,
scripts are all around you, almost like insects ??
But, really it all depends on your setup.
It is hard to say go there or there, it is a process and you need to figure how it works. It is not really complicated so if you are new do not fear, get motivated and you will figure it all out in a week. (of good work)

My advice was to install firefox for sure.
Then find firebug plug in. -> read about it
Open it up when you load up a page that is bothering you. You will find firebug console with all kind of options (html, css, DOM, Script, NET)
So you want to check out NET option. There you will find all kind of requests (html, css, js, xhr, images, flash, media) You can check’em all out.
But if you are really new in all of that maybe you wont be able to figure what it all means. So, my advice is to get few books about wordpress/html/css and just read it through. If you are motivated enough of course.
I mean, at the end it really pays off, since you are constantly going to bump into small things like that, and more understanding you have… it is less trouble latter down the road.

You know, it does get boring sometimes, maybe, but it is really cool once you figure it out. I would encourage you to give it a fair try.
Wordpress is great and it really deserves a lot of attention.

take care

Hey Ipstenu,
thank you for your response.
MySql connection collation is set to utf8_general_ci

Here you can take a look at my tables
https://eplato.rs/myDB.jpg

I would recommend checking it out using Firebug -> NET option.
Then you could see exactly how each request is doing. You should have an idea what went wrong.

Pay attention to scripts, most likely something is looping its way out… or …

Dave,

I apologize I did not answer to you for a while.
I did, though, look through all frameworks you mentioned. True, they are great and powerful.

Also I figured we are getting off topic here so we could create some other thread or we could keep talking in private if you wish. I just finished (which is why I was not logging here) my MU theme.

I will be happy to keep exchanging thoughts with you.

take care,
Aleksandar