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Weird 404s by Sideblog

Until now, I can’t figure out why other blogs with Sideblog plugin installed has their pages returning 404s. I did some testing with fresh install of wordpress as well as on existing blogs and have not gotten any 404s. Yes, even before Sideblog version 3.7. I follow the same procedure everytime.

One reason might be that I am totally out of touch with regards to core Wordpress code developments. I don’t have any paid wordpress related projects since late last year. But as I see it, there were not much changes in core WP code that directly affects Sideblog.

Anyway, Wordpress just launched their plugins directory. If I understood them correctly, they allow hosting the plugin from there and will provide SVN for it. These is good news. I am planning to upload Sideblog over there and allow other developers to submit fixes. Maybe, this time, Sideblog’ll be a bit stable than it is now.

By Kates Gasis on March 18, 2007 | Filed Under General, Programming 

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9 Responses to “Weird 404s by Sideblog”

  1. 1
    lukas Says:
    March 23rd, 2007 at 2:08 am

    hm, is this the answer on my problem? or do you have a better one for the situation on my site now?… :-)

    remember: I have no fix-sides since I installed the sideblog…

    thanks!…
    lukas

  2. 2
    AO Says:
    March 26th, 2007 at 12:18 am

    Here’s the error I’m getting upon activation of the plugin:

    Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in /home/quack/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sideblog.php on line 29

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5' at line 1]
    SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS DISTINCT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON ( wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND (post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’)) AND wp_post2cat.category_id NOT IN () ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5

  3. 3
    jez Says:
    March 28th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    this textarea box stretches over the whole screen under firefox 2 (vista).
    maybe you want to fix that

  4. 4
    jez Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 12:32 am

    great to see you got it fixed. thanks.
    any news on the sideblog?

  5. 5
    h4x3d.com | Building a Wordpress sideblog (plugin) that works Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 2:35 am

    [...] random 404 errors. Some months later, other bloggers were also facing this problem. Finally, the 404 issue would be addressed by the plugin author himself. Future versions of the Sideblog plugin were [...]

  6. 6
    tpalice Says:
    April 30th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

    It seems that Sideblog hasn’t been put into the WP Plugin site?

    I’m really looking forward to a newer version without the 404 error.

    Currently, the 404 error is happening to a page I’m not really using, so I keep Sideblog active since I like this plugin a lot. :)

  7. 7
    Jason Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 4:53 am

    It looks like my comment might have been dropped when you migrated..

    In any event, I thought it might be helpful to others to see my fix for the 404 issue. Who knew that pages were actually assigned to categories?? See more here: http://i.ndustrio.us/2007/05/09/wordpress-21-pages-return-404-because-of-sidebar-plugin/

    Jason

  8. 8
    Kates Gasis Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 11:34 am

    Hey, Is there anything I can do to recreate the bug? I’ve installed WP and Sideblog countless times creating, deleting and recreating pages and posts but it seems I don’t get across 404 issues. Does the bug occur on newly-created blogs or does it also occur on existing blogs with lots of pages?

    I did test it on my localhost, on this server and on my other web servers.

  9. 9
    Jason Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

    Hi Kates,

    Try updating the category association for an existing page in the wp_post2cat table and set it to the categoryid of a currently ’sideblogged’ category.

    I was able to reproduce the issue using this method.
    Good luck.

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