Woohoo! WordPress comments were taking 10-15 seconds to post, now they’re working instantly again. Thanks for hanging with us. Here’s a run down on what we did today. We don’t know the cause, only that a fresh WordPress install helped. … Read more
Today we’re reinstalling WordPress, the blogging software. A server tune up has it running much faster, but comments and some back end stuff like comment moderation are still taking 10-15 seconds or longer. A secondary test site was setup yesterday … Read more
The WordPress update is complete. No incidents so far. Identified WPGPlus, the WordPress Google+ integration plugin, as the source of “A valid URL was not provided” errors when we publish. Disabled it because it never worked once in the first … Read more
The WordPress to Twitter plugin has been down for more than a week, and the WordPress to Facebook plugin kinda works whenever it wants. Our apologies for the missed Twitter and Facebook PCB giveaways, we’ll try to get them back … Read more
Please excuse this test post, the WP to Twitter plugin that pushes blog posts to Twitter seems to be down. Please enjoy this homemade flux in lieu of an actual post.
We finished responding to every email received during the Maker Faire, and wrote everyone who gave us a business card. If you were expecting a mail and didn’t get one, please followup again, it may have been lost in the … Read more
If you’re a Google+ social networking fan, we’ll be experimenting with post syndication on our Google+ page this week. As always, we don’t use social networking features malware widgets on DangerousPrototypes.com to better protect your privacy. We do syndicate posts … Read more
On Monday the usually trusty WordPress Tweeter plugin that pushes posts to Twitter stopped working. It wasn’t obvious until yesterday when there were no replies, and lots of complaints, about free PCB Tuesday. WP Tweeter hasn’t been updated in a … Read more
Over the last few days we’ve been experimenting with a new site theme. You may see it click on and off a few times before it’s completely ready. We’ve been using a slightly modified Tarski theme since the beginning. The … Read more
On Friday and Saturday posts weren’t pushed to Facebook. Problems cropped up after upgrades to the latest WordPress and Wordbooker plugin a few days ago. A Wordbooker reset helped a little yesterday, but then failed again. We’re back on the … Read more
There is an intermittent issue with the comments. Some users are seeing other user details in the comment box. We tried a full reinstall, disabling plugins, flushing the cache, etc, but the issue persists. We posted a support query in … Read more
There will be some site upgrades during the wee hours* tomorrow, between 10am and 2pm GMT. There may be outages and strange behavior on the blog and wiki. The forum will be unaffected.
Over the next 24 hours we’re migrating to cloud hosting at Laughing Squid. WordPress has been a fantastic (and free!) host, but we need to move. We really want the forum to be at dangerousprototypes.com, and we can’t do that … Read more
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