uncleandrew

Well, from the looks of it, the 2.6.1 release should take care of this problem. The question has been rendered academic for me, as I plan to stick with my new non-IIS setup for the foreseeable future. Too often in the support forums the answer to an IIS-related question or problem seems to be, “use Apache”. So I guess I’ll take that advice. ??

Andrew

Just a quick update: as an experiment, I have moved my blog lock, stock and barrel over to an old Mac G4 Cube running OS 10.4 (standard, not server), and all of my mangled link problems have disappeared. I’m neither smart nor experienced enough to make any major conclusions based upon this limited sample, but it would seem that there are some issues to be worked out as far as WordPress and IIS go.

Andrew

Hey Ian,

I’m using plain ol’ vanilla permalinks. About the only unusual things about my blog structure are that I use a custom directory for uploads and a home-brewed theme. Altering these factors did not fix the problem.

Maybe we’ve uncovered a bug? You’d think that others would have experienced this and commented on it as well, but I haven’t found much chatter online….

Andrew

An update: I’m finding these truncated links in areas other than the media Gallery as well. For instance: on the Dashboard page, the “Edit” links for the Incoming Links and WordPress Development Blog also show this weird truncation, beginning with http:/? instead of https://www.uncle-andrew.net/blog/. I also see this in the “Next” link under Manage Posts, and in other places. Basically, there seems to be an instruction buried somewhere that is not handing off proper URLs, though why this is happening (software error, database error, PEBKAC error) is beyond my meager abilities to uncover.

Andrew

You know, I really can’t imagine what convinced me to be an “early adopter” in this particular case….I don’t habitually gravitate towards the very first release of something. Perhaps it was the siren song of self-installing updates. Whatever it was, other than this one hitch it seems to be working just fine. The new Dashboard is going to take some getting used to, though….kinda fugly, IMHO.

Uncle Andrew

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!
Regarding the menu: using position: absolute; results in the “credit” footer anchoring itself to just below the last post. I guess that’s not so much of a problem now, but it was really annoying when I only had one post, as the footer ended up sticking itself about halfway thorugh my menu.
Thanks for the tip about using coded “&”s. I didn’t think it was necessary, now I know better. ??
And thank you for identifying that stray list tag. I stared at that thing until my eyes bled.
Andrew