WTF?
You may have noticed the old Wordpress theme has been replaced (hopefully temporarily) by the default Wordpress theme. What happened was this: Went to update my blog and discovered a problem. When I logged and clicked on a permalink, it loaded and empty white page instead of the blog post I had written. When I was logged in, I could view the page fine. I looked at several things and as far as I could tell everything looked fine. I hadn’t made any significant changes to the blog in the previous 48 hours and the thing was working fine just the day before. Permissions were set where they were supposed to be, etc. My web host had been experiencing some problems with the servers, so I checked my other blogs to see if they were suffering the same problem. No, not my other blogs. Just Diary of a Mad Editor. I consulted authorities who know far more about PHP and Apache than I do and got some suggestions — most of which were not that helpful. One person suggested a problem related to upgrading to Wordpress 2.8. The only problem with that is I’d upgraded to 2.8 a at least a few weeks ago and hadn’t had a single problem until yesterday. Another suggested an Apache bug but, again, wouldn’t I have experienced this bug previously? Another person suggested that I change themes and see what happened. I figured I had nothing to lose so I switched to the default template and tested it and, sure enough, the permalinks were working the way they should. So, until I fix the problem with the old theme or decide on a new theme, we’re all stuck with the bland, default theme, so don’t be to alarmed by the sight of it.
