Monthly Archives: January 2010

WordPress links to stories not working [RESOLVED]

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WordPress how I love loathe love hate admire… I can’t decide.
I will say this. WordPress has saved me a lot of time. I can focus on the important aspects rather than minor and sometimes boring details.

So I ran across another issue with WordPress today. I made some minor changes and suddenly all the links to my stories stopped working. I checked my admin, all of the stories are still there. My homepage showed all the abstracts to my articles. But suddenly

none of the links to my stories are working!!!

How did I solve it? It was actually very simple. RESET. No I don’t mean a computer restart. I don’t mean refeshing the page. I mean I reset.

Life is just like that. Sometimes we need to reset. When it comes to our daily lives, often times that means stopping to ask forgiveness. In our own way, we can screw things up pretty good if we try to do it all on our own. So we need to come to the cross and ask Jesus to forgive us. We need to reset. Start fresh.

And so just like in life, I reset. To solve the issue of wordpress links not working, I went to settings > permalinks. Re-entered my custom permalink tag. And clicked Save Settings.

And so my issue of links to articles not working was resolved. And once again my site was functioning properly.

WordPress ERROR: Unable to create directory [RESOLVED]

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I tried and tried to upload images to my posts but was continuously bombarded by the annoying permission error:

“Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/2010/01. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”

I attempted so many fixes. I tried changing permissions on my folders and was unsuccessful.
I tried using the flash uploader and was still unsuccessful.

Finally it hit me!!! When in doubt go back to the basics!
So many errors actually spell out there own solution. But we in our overcomplicated way of thinking manage to make things so difficult on ourselves.

Isn’t that true out of so much we do in life? Not just with computers. But with everything. Even our relationships. Its that way with God too. He has made things so easy for us. But somehow we muck things up. We cloudy the crystal clear water. We think to ourselves, “it can’t be that easy. So I’m going to do things the hard way”. All God has asked of us is that we give him a chance. That we listen to what he has to say. And when we listen. To those simple word He says. What a joy! What a peace we have! Jesus says today “I love you”. Can that be any simpler?

Oh my I’ve almost forgotten! The reason I couldn’t upload images was soooooo simple. I went back to the error. It said it can’t create the directory. So I checked how WordPress was setup under “Settings > Miscellaneous”. And there it was!

[ /wp-content/uploads ] “Default wp-content/uploads”

HAHA! I had an extra slash in my location. Once I removed the slash from the beginning of the folder location, everything was fine and dandy.

I was immediately able to upload images. And it had nothing to do with permissions to folders. Rather that I had my focus in the wrong place. So how about you? Do you have your focus on Jesus today? Or has your focus waned?

Are you looking and searching for answers to life’s simplest question? Feel free to contact me by submitting a comment. (*I’ll have a contact button setup shortly).

I took it! And so should you!

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The survey for people who make websites.

I took it! And so should you.

Its indeed a very short survey to task someone with. Perhaps only 20 questions long. But I think this will be a valuable survey for all of us who are in anyway connected to work performed on, in or for the Internet.

If you have a little time, could you please take the survey?