WordPress: Why Did My Blog Disappear?
Today, I’m proudly showing my new blog address/theme, etc. to my friend, Brian Edmondson, and he says, “Looks great in Firefox, but something’s wrong in IE. I can only see the header.”
Grrrr…. What’s the deal? I tried changing to Kubrick theme (the blue & white default), and nada… Same thing.
Enter WordPress’s support blog. It’s really a great resource, and it can solve just about any issue you may be having with your blog from installation to (in this case) disappearance. So, I’m sure it’s IE, right? And I type in “IE Problems,” and sure enough, I find that others have had this same problem, too. To my rescue, there’s a post from a moderator named Jeremy Clark.
If you see anything that says <!--[if gte mso 9]> you’re going to lose your blog. It comes from posting from Microsoft Word, which I didn’t. I know better. Copying and pasting from Word, no matter what you’re doing — whether it’s writing in your blog, posting an article at Ezine Articles, or sending a message from an autoresponder — you’re going to have problems.
In my case, I think it happened when using the Firefox add-on ScribeFire to post to my blog. I’m testing that right now to see if that’s the issue. Otherwise, I have no clue how that code snippet got involved. The second I deleted all the Word gobbelty-gook, my blog came back and all is again right with the world.
Anyway, a couple of caveats here. NEVER use Word to paste anything you don’t want screwed up and watch out for ScribeFire. I’ve really been loving it, but if it does that again… pffft!!! It’s history.
Let’s see what happens… hang on…
Nope! Seems fine with ScribeFire. What happened? Hmm… Not sure.
The moral of the story is if something goes wrong with your blog… WordPress.org usually has an answer.
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