Messing with WordPress
Last night, on another WordPress blog I have, I started deleting plugins. What started this was the fact that I had installed a plugin, but had changed permissions and had forgotten to change them back (I hate it when I do that!) during a testing phase.
Checking my real time logs, I discovered that yahoo was spidering a directory I didn’t want spidered. This sent me into panic mode: I’m normally very careful about what I tweak, and putting things back the way they were when I’m done.
So, I started deleting plugins, and uploaded more than a couple of blank index files, and updated all of my robots.txt files to keep robots out of where they don’t belong:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:
Today, I created a post, and noticed I forgot something after publishing, went back, added it in real quick and wanted to make sure the Comments and Pings were selected in the Discussion box.
The discussion box was gone. Poof. Bye bye. Nowhere to be seen.
I started backtracking everything I did last nite. Usually I just backup the whole folder, don’t know why I didn’t this time, wasn’t thinking I guess.
Long story short: I got my discussion box back, but not where it was originally. It’s like box #3 on the hierarchy of boxes on the right side of my write screen.
At least it’s back.