To anyone that has sent a trackback to this site this week I humbly apologize.
No trackbacks have been getting in since the weekend and I’ve been spending my free time (I DO have a regular day job, OK?) trying to find it. I have practically memorized the WordPress Codex, Knowledge Base, and Forums. I have memorized every line of code behind this blog. I could hand code, from memory, every WordPress Nightly Build since the summer of 2005. But, as it turns out, the error wasn’t there.
IT WAS IN A BUGGY PLUG-IN! Geez. Just because a plug-in written by someone else actually does what it claims to do (and that’s not all that common) you can never rule out the fact that their silly 20 lines of code would wreck -other- sections of your blog seemingly unrelated to the plug-in.
To anyone that trackbacked here since this past weekend I do apologize that your trackback is now lost and floating in Electron Heaven where all good code and comments go to spend all of eternity It’s the place opposite of where bad code and comments go to spend all of eternity. I know, because I’ve written much of both during my former days as a coder.
I won’t mention the plug-in nor the author. I can only comment that if the author wants their plug-in to stay on the market and relevant then consider upgrading it to the versions of WordPress that are in use today and not simply leaving it clipped in its Summer 1987 version (there’s a pun there for any old dBase III-IV programmers).
