Am temporarily stymied in my effort to troubleshoot the currently non-functioning “comments” feature on this site because the server my “unlimited account” resides on at HostNewWay.com reached 100% capacity late this evening and I’m unable to ftp files until the host clears some additional space. Waiting for the host to resolve this. Then will get back to trying to find and fix the source of this perplexing problem.

I was puzzled that no one had commented on any posts in recent months but it wasn’t until Barbra Sundquist notified me a few days back that the comments function wasn’t working on this site that I understood why.

— kwc

Mr. President:

Three years ago you declared “Mission Accomplished.”

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None of these proclamations proved to be true. None of these efforts proved to be effective.

Now, we are told, you are proposing we escalate this war that you committed us to enter under the false (more…)

Am attempting to determine why the “comments” function is misbehaving. Am going to do some quick experimenting which will completely discombobulate the appearance of this site for a few moments if you’re happening to visit while I’m troubleshooting…

UPDATE: Many, many hours later. It is seeming to me that the comments function may have disappeared when I upgraded WordPress from 2.0 to 2.02 in late summer or early fall.

The newer version may have some imcompatibility with my design (known as a “theme” in WordPress speak). I haven’t found where the possible imncompatibility lies but have proven that the problem is not with WordPress itself. ‘Comments’ works and all the old comments are there when I switch to Wordpress’s highly functional but not so pretty default “Kubrick” theme. Going to continue slogging away at this.

It is also possible that I corrupted some code somewhere while validating the site in October.

TUESDAY UPDATE: About 8 hours into this I’m as puzzled as I was at the start. Haven’t located the source of the problem. I have a request in at the WordPress support forum and am hoping someone there may spot what it is I need to fix. So far no takers.

by Rey Carr
Peer Resources

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* Too few coaches are actually able to make a living as coaches. More coaches are leaving the field after finding that (more…)

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