Working at Home on the Internet

Thanks Steve Johnson

for Fixing IE7 Access to My Home Page

 I owe a debt of gratitude to Steve Johnson of The Fast Lane. If you can read this and you are using IE7, it is due to the efforts Steve put in yesterday in helping (he did all the work) to resolve the errors I was getting on my own, and it seems everyone elses, Internet Explorer after upgrading to WordPress 2.1.

Even though I had followed the instructions to the installation to the letter, I still encountered some serious problems.

The first and most important problem was an Error that anyone using IE7 received when trying to access the main page. It seemed that the whole page would load and then an error stating that IE couldn’t access the page. Individual pages and single posts had no problems and loaded normally.

Steve found that there is some kind of conflict between the StatCounter javascript and one or more other applications. Once the script for SC was removed, the page would load normally for IE users.

So, at this point I can’t count how many of you are visiting the Main page, but if you go directly to any article individually, I will know you were here.

 Other problems I have encountered so far:

The Forum is on hold do to the incompatibility with the Plug-in and WP 2.1

The Unchecker for Categories doesn’t work (actually, there Is No Default category anymore as far as I can tell).

Here’s a Big One, when you try to use Save and Continue using IE7, it is returning the same error I was having yesterday, “cannot access page…”.

I have yet to figure out how to put a Double Space between certain paragraphs, I used to be able to hit return twice and that was it, now, no matter what I do, I end up with a Single space.

There are a lot of smaller things I have encountered and some I haven’t found yet, so…

Is anyone besides me having as many problems with this Upgrade? What problems are you having?

Update: I found that it wasn’t the StatCounter itself that was causing the problem. It was the Combination of StatCounter and CrazyEgg within the same field that was causing the Error.

StatCounter has been re-installed alone in the index.php and CrazyEgg has been moved to the Footer. Both seem to be working according to design specifications at this point.

Update II: WordPress 2.1 Sucks… I can now access the Main page by bringing it up outside of WP. In other words, if I use the address bar, or a link to the Main page to access it . If I try to “view site” through WP I STILL get that stupid Error. I don’t think WP likes StatCounter or IE7 or both. That’s where it keeps Fucking Up…

Yes I am Pissed… I NEED SC and be able to View the Page And have Readers be able to Read the Page… I refuse to accept that WP and IE7 can’t get along. 80% of my readers use Internet Explorer in one version or another.

Sorry for the language, but this is upsetting me more than you would expect.

Related posts:

Having Problems Accessing My Own Page

WordPress 2.1 (A Very) Preliminary Review

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January 27th, 2007 at 01:49pm | Posted by Joe | Community, Plug-ins, Stastics, WordPress | 6 reader remarks | Print This Post

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Seventeenth Edition

Welcome to the January 26, 2007 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

GP presents So you want to Run a Bed and Breakfast posted at Making Montana Memories - at the Fish Creek House, saying, “Some inside scoops on innkeeping”

Phil B. presents Another Fundamental Flaw with Online Advertisement « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Imagine for a moment, you are reading an interesting article or watching a cool video on the Internet for free. That’s not hard to imagine, since you are doing it now. Now imagine that you want to give thanks to the provider for the content that you just saw, so you intentionally click on an advertisement on that webpage.”

Christine Kane presents Business Advice for Artists and Sensitive People posted at Christine Kane.

Matthew Paulson presents My Experiences at a Quixtar Recruitment Meeting posted at Getting Green.

business

Krishna De presents Google alerts - probably the best free research tool in the world posted at Krishna De, saying, “Discover 10 keys to using Google Alerts to grow your business”

Katie presents Quit doubting yourself and tap into your assets already posted at Aridni, saying, “Thanks for hosting!”

Gina presents Why Hire A Tax Professional? posted at Gina’s Tax Articles, saying, “With tax software so cheap, so many online tax filing options, resources and help all over the Internet, why hire a tax professional?”

Neville Thomas presents Things to know before you start a home business posted at Simply Home Business Blog.

Becky McCray presents Resource: Small Business Ideas for Small Towns posted at Small Biz Survival, saying, “Ideas for great businesses are out there. Here are four tactics for discovering ideas for your home business or small business.”

Stephanie Bryant presents The Paperless Home Office posted at Mortaine’s Blog, saying, “A professional writer shares her tips on the paperless office space.”

John presents Do you have what it takes? posted at OhCash.com, saying, “It takes more than just skills and knowledge to succeed. Get the feel of the inner workings.”

home

Christopher J. Brunner presents Teaching Your Child About Money posted at The Small Business Buzz, saying, “My submission is about the importance of teaching the world’s future business leaders about money at a young age, and suggestions on how to do so. Thank you for considering my submission for inclusion in this week’s edition of the Working at Home Blog Carnival.”

stories

GP presents Come as a Guest… Leave as a Friend posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “Running a bed and breakfast, is a full time home labour of love. A day in the life.”

Will Chen presents Life Changing Experiment: Day 1 posted at Wisebread, saying, “Chris kicks off a simple 30 day challenge to revamp his life. Will we see a dramatic change or is Chris going to crash and burn? Either way, stay tuned.”

GP presents Hospitaity Service or How We Pamper our Guests posted at Making Montana Memories - at the Fish Creek House, saying, “Home is where the hospitality is… Hospitality service is the name of the game in the innkeeping business.”

tips

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Silicon Valley Blog About Money, Finance, Geek Culture and Cyberspace posted at The Digerati Life.

Azlan presents Four Tips on How to Use Social Networking site for Zero Cost Publicity posted at AZLAN KASIM.

Debra Moorhead presents 5 Ways to Use Your Time More Efficiently posted at Debra Moorhead.com, saying, “Do you ever wonder which time management theories work best? Which ones do the truly successful entrepreneurs use? This article will have you inspired and ready to get to work in no time.”

David Olsen presents Affiliate Marketing – Five tactics for getting the most out of your traffic posted at Affiliate Profit Center.

Moneywalks presents Mutual Funds 101 posted at moneywalks.

work

Barbra Sundquist presents How to Find Freelance Work on the Web posted at HomeBusinessWiz.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of working at home blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. If you would like to host one of my Carnivals, just use the contact form to make arrangements.

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January 26th, 2007 at 06:36am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | 8 reader remarks | Print This Post

Having Problems Accessing My Own Page

This is a test post. I can’t seem to access MY OWN BLOG. I have no idea what is causing the problem.

I tried to answer Rick Cockrum’s comment and I am getting nowhere. I tried to access through (View Site) in the Dashboard of WP and I keep getting an error that it can’t open the page.

Can someone try it out and see if you can bring up the page, make a comment or anything else and let me know.

joe (at) workingathomeinternet (dot) com.

Thanks

Joe

Update: I still haven’t found out what the problem is, I still get an Internet Explorer error when I try to bring up the Main /WP URL. I tried it on the other computer and it worked once, then I ended up getting the same error (I run IE7 on that one too).

Since the error was from IE7, and I have FireFox installed, I thought I would try to access the page through FF.

IT WORKED…

I am not a big proponent of FireFox, I have been using IE since forever, but I may just change over for good if it works for the important stuff. I had no problems with the other WP blogs using IE, but this is the one that Counts.

I’ll wait until I can keep my eyes open before making a final judgement, but I am leaning heavily toward FireFox tonight.

Thanks for all your help in trying to figure this out, I really do appreciate it.

January 25th, 2007 at 12:11pm | Posted by Joe | Attitude | 11 reader remarks | Print This Post