Archive for the ‘lyceum’ Category
Test post from Windows Live Writer
So what’s all the fuss with this Windows Live Writer? Will it be able to post to a Lyceum blog? Well why not, after all Lyceum is Wordpress.
Wow, it works! Ok, M$ might be on something here…
Lyceum 1.0.2 install problem
I was trying to install Lyceum 1.0.2 on my desktop today, running the install script, everything seemed to be ok. But when as admin I tried to add new blog, I wasn’t able to do so.
It took me awhile to figure out what’s going on, when I browse my database using MySQL Query Browser, I saw that there were only 4 tables under lyceum database, this cannot be right I thought. So I double checked my live lyceum database and I saw about 10 or so tables there.
So I then narrowed the problem to the upgrade-schema.php under wp-admin. I tried cutting and pasting some of the table creation SQL there directly to MySQL Query Browser and the feedback that I got was all of the text fields cannot have default value! So I had to omit default values from any fields of type text, mediumtext and longtext, then I re-run the install script and now everything is working as expected.
I wonder what causes this problem as I never encountered this problem before with Lyceum, oh yeah, I am running MySQL 5.0 under Windows XP.
Lyceum comment was not working
Found out that some people were unable to post comment on this blog (and most likely on any other blogs as well). I am still trying to find out the problem, I have been debugging for few hours, I think I know where to look now, although I am not sure what is causing it..
Update: After poking around, finally found out that the problem is with the 2 Wordpress templates that I use. The comments.php should contain this line of code:
<?php do_action('comment_form',$post->ID);>
before the submit button code. This line of code will produce 2 hidden fields one is “b” which is the blog identifier and the other one I think is token value (do check the source code of the comment page).
This is a somewhat very surprising fact to me, this means that WordPress themes will not work properly out of the box for Lyceum (surely someone must have put this information somewhere.. maybe I should read the Lyceum’s howtos and forum.. )
