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Some Site Weirdness

I’m having some weird problems on my site, but I can’t figure out what the deal is.  I’m thinking it’s an ExpressionEngine thing.

For some reason, some of my posts don’t show up.  You can click on the link, and nothing shows up.  In IE for PC, it’s gives you the standard warning page that the site can’t be loaded.

One example page that’s giving me problems is Belief-O-Matic.  But what’s weird is that someone just left a comment on it this morning.  I checked their comment and even edited to see if it would help, but it didn’t.  So perhaps it’s showing up for some, but not for others?  If so, why?

I checked my code and it looks fine.  I tried changing the titles or entries and some of the content, but that didn’t help either.  I also tried referencing the articles by ID number, but that didn’t work either.  And it’s only on some entries.

If anyone spots an entry that’s acting up like this, please email me and let me know which entry you were trying to access.  Thanks!

I found the problem.  It’s with an ExpressionEngine plugin I’ve been using.  Once I removed it from a certain part of my template, everything worked fine.  Still, if you see any weirdness with the site, please let me know so I can fix it.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 23, 2004

http://www.chrisruzin.net/index.php/entry/belief_o_matic/ does not show up, but the following URLs do:

http://www.chrisruzin.net/index.php/index/belief_o_matic/

http://www.chrisruzin.net/index.php/belief_o_matic/

http://www.chrisruzin.net/index.php/weblog/index/belief_o_matic/

I can only assume that it is something in that template that when an entry_id is added that it does not want to display content.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 23, 2004

I’ve tried going over my entry template, but I can’t find anything that would mess it up.

One thing I’m not sure about… it’s possible to enable template caching on sub-templates without messing things up, right? I had a bunch of sub-template caching going on, but it still messed up even when I disabled the caching and cleared all caches.

I’m going to rebuild my entry template piece by piece to see if I can find the problem.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 23, 2004

Well, I found the problem, and you’re not going to like it, Paul. It’s a problem with your Search Engine Hilight plugin. I have it in two places. In the main entry and in the comments. When I removed it from the comments area, the template works fine.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 23, 2004

Really? Odd. The plugin should only be activated when there is a match in the referrer for a known search engine. Your site does not look like it has that kind of URL. I do not know what to tell you.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 23, 2004

Oh, one side effect of removing the second search hilite tags… the random related entries are now limited to 10, like they’re supposed to. Remember I had posted about that on the support forums?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 23, 2004

Oops. I spoke too soon. The related entries are still showing duplicates and more than 10. Lame…

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 23, 2004

Yeah, I remember you posting that but I was not able to duplicate it on the pMachine Hosting servers. You seem to have the site of weirdness, Chris.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 24, 2004

Is that something I should be proud of?

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 24, 2004

A challenge? If you want me to look at your site over the weekend, I would not mind trying to find the core of the problems for both the multiple randoms and the search hilite of doom.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 24, 2004

Not a challenge, but you’re certainly welcome to try and figure out the weirdness. Just email me and let me know what kind of information you’re going to need.

I hope you succeed in your valiant quest to vanquish the search hilite of doom and its evil cohorts.

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