soundtrip

whooami,

Hi. I appreciate you looking at SoundTrip. Yes, SoundTrip.com is very old and has not been updated in quite some time. That is why that particular domain was down; it is not the domain I have issues with.

I’m not implying that I was hacked. I just wondered what the other user saw that indicated he was hacked.

I am a web host and have many domains all running the same code with the exception of SoundTrip. I truly suspect that something else happened to kill my sites but need to cover all bases; never hurts to ask.

My symptoms are that the fluency admin console no longer works and that the tinyMCE editor no longer allows users to switch between the view and html modes. If by chance I am able to switch I just get a blank page. I have disabled all plugins to no avail.

I have tried reverting back to PHP4 to see if something changed on that end but that made no difference. I have also tried both Firefox and IE with the cache disabled.

It’s not my only server so I will try another but I’d like to know what is happening. Never saw something like this before.

Regards,
Trip

Hi, Can you let us know exactly what was hacked? I woke up this morning and all of WP 2.5 domains were broken. I can not edit anything today, none of the toolbars in the tiyeMCE editor work. I have this issue on 5 blogs simultaneously and have been on 2.5 for well over a week with no such issue.

I haven’t changed anything on my server so something must have changed somewhere else.

Thanks,
Trip

Same deal here. My ability to send pingbacks comes and goes intermittently; more often not at all. Trackbacks go out just fine.

Question, is there way to manually send a pingback? I am at a loss here.

Has anyone been able to get their blogs to successfully trackback a Moveable type or blogger site using wp 2.0x?

I will create a blogger account to test but I figured perhaps someone may have solved this issue already.

did a test of one and my own trackback ended up in the “Comments For Moderation”

Unfortunately this change doesn’t address that issue. I have tried to suppress these to no avail although I only use akismet.

I just took a look and you can apply the same change to 2.02.

Back up the original file and just move the pingback block below the trackback block.

For me this works and was necessary due to the sites I linked up against. It would be nice to find out if the WordPress developers had a reason for giving pingbacks precedence over trackbacks. It could just be luck of the draw.

If in fact there is no reason perhaps an option on the write post page would make sense.

You can change the core or just install the Sodelind image manager plugin.

https://soderlind.no

It took me a while to sort these issues out so I just installed the Sodelind image manager. It is so much better and my life is now much less complicated!

https://soderlind.no

It could be a problem with the execute-pings. I have found that WordPress always gives pingbacks precedence over trackbacks, which is backwards in my estimation; especially since most people link to articles (causing the pingback) and add a trackback to have their articles show up in the trackback section of the linked article.

The trackback in this case might never take hold because it would appear as a double ping to some sites and they suppress the second ping which is a trackback in this case (this is done to prevent comment spam).

You can simply replace the wp-admin\execute-pings.php file with the text below. Please back up the old file just in case you want to revert back. I encourage you to look at the structure of the replacement as it is a very simple mechanism. Once you do this both trackbacks and pingbacks SHOULD show up as expected.

THIS IS A WP 2.01 REPLACEMENT Please check the exact structure of your version before making any changes to this file. It works fine for me on 2.01. And as always BACKUP the original.

Bsically just change the order of Trackbacks to take precedence over pingbacks as demonstrated below.

<?php

require_once(‘../wp-config.php’);

// Do Trackbacks – TMT Moved Up to force Trackbacks ahead of pingbacks
$trackbacks = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE CHAR_LENGTH(TRIM(to_ping)) > 7 AND post_status != ‘draft'”);
if ( is_array($trackbacks) ) {
foreach ( $trackbacks as $trackback ) {
do_trackbacks($trackback->ID);
}
}

// Do pingbacks
while ($ping = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->posts}, {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE {$wpdb->posts}.ID = {$wpdb->postmeta}.post_id AND {$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = ‘_pingme’ LIMIT 1”)) {
$wpdb->query(“DELETE FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE post_id = {$ping->ID} AND meta_key = ‘_pingme’;”);
pingback($ping->post_content, $ping->ID);
}

// Do Enclosures
while ($enclosure = $wpdb->get_row(“SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->posts}, {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE {$wpdb->posts}.ID = {$wpdb->postmeta}.post_id AND {$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = ‘_encloseme’ LIMIT 1”)) {
$wpdb->query(“DELETE FROM {$wpdb->postmeta} WHERE post_id = {$enclosure->ID} AND meta_key = ‘_encloseme’;”);
do_enclose($enclosure->post_content, $enclosure->ID);
}

?>
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Did anyone ever answer this? I have found the same thing. WordPress does not appear to ping moveable type blogs.

I am old enough to care what others think of me so I apologize for not going about this in the correct manner.

It is my hope that people can come here and get support without fear of getting whacked for being a newbie. That being said, the topic of this particular thread alone probably sets many off and I can see WarAxe’s point.

In any event, I could have gotten my point across better without being divisive myself. Sorry for that.

SoundTrip :: You haven’t spent a lot of time on these forums if that’s you’re impression of moshu. Perhaps you should observe a little more, first.

The impression people get is not from all the previous replies but in the last one seen. There are better ways to slap a newbie than berating them on a public forum.

This is not a knock agaisnt the moderators. I appreciate what they do as well as all the people who help. My problem is that I can’t refer my users to support if they fear asking a question. I can’t be alone in that regard as there are many businesses that use wordpress.

Worse, as a representative of the product, moderators should try and put the best face on support. Why would anyone want any support person who represents their products to publicly berate end users, even obnoxious ones? It just makes wordpress look bad in the end.

It’s another thing to begin by whining about how this software sucks and screw everybody for not spoon-feeding me. Most people would prefer not to help someone who finds it necessary to take that approach to this forum.

Perhaps that is the best solution.

I have had my say and concede that not everyone shares my opinion.

Nate,

Handysolo and podz are correct. Line 121 of the config file says
‘include_once(dirname(__FILE__) . “/configure/index.php”);’

You have to make sure all of the image-manager files have been put into the plugins directory.

See https://soderlind.no/wp-content/uploads/ImageManagerDirectories.gif

Podz – I spend as much time possible helping people in and outside of this forum. It just puts me off to see people get dissed in such a manner. I have had numerous e-mails from people asking for help outside of the forum because they run into this kind of thing.

For the record, I am a web host and have many users on WordPress. I would like them to be able to get answers here but responses like calling someone blonde or berating them for not understanding the issue is of little help. It especially is a bit disconcerting to see that from a moderator.

Moshu,

For a moderator on this site you really are kind of a stroke.

Why in the world would anyone want to post a message on this board if you are just going to cut them down. Further, it does little to help promote WordPress when the only support area is less than friendly.

You see people ask for support because a:) something doesn’t work

b:) They are new.

Perhaps you shouldn’t be moderating if you are so uptight.