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Fixing the Dreaded “Errors were encountered while processing” Errors

The Perils of Tux

For the past week or two, every time I installed new software into Ubuntu, I was greeted with the "Errors were encountered while processing:" blah, blah, blah speech. Up until yesterday, that error was just a battle scar my computer had earned attempting to install a few software packages. I didn't need them, my computer wasn't bothered by them not being fully installed so after trying to fix them many times I thought f#ck it! No real problem. But yesterday, when a few more packages failed to install, and this time they stopped my computer from updating itself and prevented me from using … [Read more...]

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Bugs in the System!!!

Don't panic !! It's only a picture of one I caught earlier.

I apologise if you were affected by the recent bug encountered by some visitors when they accessed this site. The bug caused some desktop PC user's to see the mobile and PDA version of JournalXtra. It was caused by a plugin update and the issue has now been resolved. For those who want a little more information, the plugin is called WPtouch iPhone Theme and is designed to switch visitors with mobile phones and PDAs to a site theme specifically designed for them. It hasn't affected any of my other Wordpress blogs so it will be related to a configuration setting. I knew about the update but … [Read more...]

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Vanishing WordPress Posts!!!

smashed computer graphic

I had a shock today. In fact, I was terrified, livid and exasperated by what happened to me today: I lost a very long Wordpress article that I have been working on for several months; or, at least, I thought I had lost it. I made a few edits and added some new details to the 140 Mafia Guide, saved it and viewed it to see that the article displayed as I wanted. Only, it wasn't there to be seen. The comments were still visible but the article was, well, gone! I felt sick. I've spent ages working on The Guide, adding internal links and changing the layout to make it more user friendly. I wanted … [Read more...]

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WordPress: How to Auto Expand Comments by Default

Just a little gripe I have with some of the Wordpress themes created by some of those amazing designers out there. Some theme designers forget to provide the option to have the comment dialogue box auto expand at the end of articles. Not a problem when there's a button stating "add comment here" but it is a problem when there isn't such a button or when busy visitors are too much in a rush to look for such a button. Think about it, do you look for a comment box or do you look for a "add comment" button? After a little bit of searching I found the code edits needed to make the comment box … [Read more...]

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