{"id":211,"date":"2013-12-14T18:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T18:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=211"},"modified":"2013-12-14T22:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:57:25","slug":"getting-seriously-pissed-off-with-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahorseforonebin.co.uk\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"getting seriously pissed off with mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unknown to me the primary blog has been down all day because of a Mantra theme problem in WordPress.<\/p>\n

When I got in from my roadtrip, around 5ish, I checked the NAS and the servers; every component was up and running and looking good.<\/p>\n

I validated the webservices by checking the geekblog and it looked and responded normally.<\/p>\n

I checked my main blog and was surprised to see a blank page. Nothing. Just a big slab of visual white noise.<\/p>\n

I checked the MySQL database and it looked good and responded to a dummy query normally.<\/p>\n

I checked the WordPress admin page and it came back straight away. But as well as the usual admin things, it displayed an error message I hadn’t seen before:<\/p>\n

\"Error\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So something, somewhere, was telling the database to pull a theme (or, importantly, a part of a theme) from a directory that didn’t exist (and no theme directory has ever been located in ‘(‘ as far as I’m aware).<\/p>\n

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So I switched to the current view (had to knock up a header with text, based on the old header I made for Mantra).<\/p>\n

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Now I could just reinstall Mantra (and I may well end up doing that), but I’m a bit fed up with the issues I’ve been having with the blog theme.<\/p>\n

I’ve just upgraded WordPress from 3.7.1 to 3.8.<\/p>\n

Then, mindful of the last bunch of errors, I ran a feed validation against the blog’s self-generating RSS feed and the Feedburner RSS feed.<\/p>\n

Both passed (with the same YouTube-related minors).<\/p>\n

Very curious.<\/p>\n

I need to think about this.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I’m going to leave the design on the temporary version, while I ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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