thoughts from a /software engineer[ing manager]/
The Problem I just noticed on one of my sites that some download links to PDF, zip, and other assets had an almost total drop in download events in Google Analytics after a recent Yoast Google Analytics for WordPress plugin update. So I began to troubleshoot … The firing of trackEvent() is handled by the […]
Yesterday, many Google Webmaster Tools users received unpleasant notifications that their websites were suddenly inaccessible to Google. After 2 hours of aggressive troubleshooting last night, and another couple hours spent this morning, it seems that this may be an issue on Google’s side. Search Engine Roundtable just posted an article confirming more reports of problems […]
You can find the new Facebook for WordPress plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory, or read more about Facebook and WordPress on the developers page.
But your cookies are turned on, you’ve cleared them along with the rest of your cache, and the problem exists in every browser!
A typical scenario is when you’ve copied your website from it’s test URL to production, or maybe you’re even just syncing down your prod data to your dev environment, as I do every once in a while to make sure I’m writing code against realistic data sets. After restoring the copied site files and importing your MySQL database dumb into your dev db, you innocently try to navigate to your /wp-admin page and log in. And you can’t log in because of some weird errors like “Cookies are blocked” on your system … frustrating.
Today is the last day to vote for proposals for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival (though if history precedes itself, it could be extended), and I’ve spent a good amount of time promoting what I think should be a killer topic for attendees. “Deploying WordPress: From Zero to Ninja” will cover business-oriented subjects like developing in […]