Interesting quote
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. “
Albert Einstein.
Erick Muñiz Promotion
Last month Erick Muñiz completed the Orange Belt requirements and took his promotion test to attain the Tae Kwon Do Orange Belt at the Gold Medal Center.
Erick Muñiz receives Award
Earlier this month Erick Muñiz received the “Gold Medal Martial Arts Life Skill Award” from the Gold Medal Center in Foster City.
The Awards were presented by Olympic Gold Medalist Master Herb Perez as part of the events at the “Super Fantastic Tae Kwon Do Extravagansic” party, which was the first anniversary celebration of the Gold Medal Center, the event included several TKD demonstrations by the students at the center along with the presentation of the awards.
WordPress Upgrade finished
After more than a month since I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 I finally was able to make it work normally. I Even send an email to GoDaddy customer support but of course they said “you changed scripts, then you are responsible for those changes and there is nothing we can do”, well, I searched everywhere about redirection issues with WordPress and I found nothing related to what I was experiencing (being sent from a subdomain to a domain that had nothing to do with my installation), the only thing that I saw and got me some light into the issue was the URL improvements for WP 2.3.
So there was nothing to do with the .htaccess, I was thinking about making changes there, but there was not a single instruction or issue that could cause the symptom so I didn’t even bother touching it.
Looking at the php code function redirect_canonical($requested_url=NULL, $do_redirect=true) that I found on that article showed me that they fill some variables out of the settings, and so I went to the options page of my installation and playing with them I finally got the answer.
In order to make WP2.3.2 works as the earlier version that I had installed, I had to modify these two options:
WordPress address (URL):
Blog address(URL):
This because the canonical url improvement uses them to figure out the HTTP_HOST and so the way it was before would return www.munizfam.com as the host instead of blog.munizfam.com.
And that’s how everything got fixed and the installation is happy as always.
Redirection Issues
Well, I guess this is why QA exists.
I just found out that my WordPress upgrade broke the redirection of the blog, now blog.munizfam.com instead of going to www.munizfam.com/blog goes to www.munizfam.com. I read that there has been some work on the redirection area for the WP2.3.1 (The Canonical URL Improvements to WordPress) and I think it messed up with the way I have my configuration.
I went up to WP.2.3.2 expecting something different but it looks like the changes to that release are not related to my problems.
So far I have no idea where to start looking for a fix to this, not sure if I will play with .htaccess first or if I’m going to make changes in php to put the recent entries on the home page or what. If you have run across this issue or if you have any ideas let me know.
The thing is that there is always something more to do and code will never be perfect enough.
WordPress upgrade
Today I got the blog upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 the upgrade was quite smooth as usual, only issue here is that the blog roll query is broken, I will try to fix that later tonight if I have a chance, otherwise I may just remove the blogroll for a while until I figure it out.
Somehow I still think that there are other bugs in this version of WordPress, the editor doesn’t seem to have all its options displaying correctly, at least that is the impression that I get from the toolbars. Hopefully they have another version or patch on the works and there is going to be another release soon. I actually used the 2.0.1 quite some time, I was happy with it but I didn’t like the html editor window and that’s why I got the upgrade today.
