Bank edit page

12towers · 12towers

When I open a connection to my blog or php sites it shows up fine until I click
the edit button then the page goes white with just the cursor blinking. when I
try to edit in an external editor (Dreamweaver) it just has this line
"<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>
What am I doing wrong?

RogerGG · RogerGG

I've had the same problem recently. It's been difficult to track down any
solution because the behavior is somewhat inconsistent. I've tried switching
themes (using a WordPress blog); opening the same theme, but in a different
blog; and editing the blog in Contribute on a different machine. Each time, I
think I've got onto something, but not consistently, so I can't nail it down.

If anyone else has had the same issue (blog theme display completely
disappearing when you try to edit a post) and have any answers/solutions, I'd
love to hear about it.

A related problem I've come across as I've tested and retested this, is having
the page display correctly, but with the content area's white background
dropping out (the <body> background shows through, making it impossible to see
the type). I'm not sure that this is the same issue... I suspect that it's
related to the theme's CSS stylesheet. But still, it would be nice if the pages
that display correctly in Contribute's preview mode would display in edit mode.
Otherwise, what's the point in using it?
Roger

RogerGG · RogerGG

12towers,

I think I've found the answer. The problem seems to be something that gets
skewed in the preferences file while the initial connection is being made. I
think it's that the Blog Template isn't collected or referenced properly.

I discovered this the hard way by removing the Contribute Preferences file
from my Preferences folder. After I did that, I added the misbehaving blog
again by making a new connection, and when I tested it, it displayed fine. The
only problem is that when I removed the old Preferences file, I also lost all
the other connections I had established in Contribute.

I restored the old preferences file and got all of my connections back (I have
quite a few sites and blogs I manage for myself and my wife), but when I tried
editing a page on the blog in question, the page was blank again.

The solution was to remove that blog from my list of connections, and then
re-establish it as a new connection (I quit out of Contribute and relaunched it
in between, just because I'm superstitious). This time it retrieved the
Template intact and it's working fine.

I hope that helps you with your problem, too.
Cheers,
Roger

RogerGG · RogerGG

One more solution... Once I found that the problem was with the Blog Template,
I did a search on that and found this post

<[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=55&catid=2[/url]
90&threadid=1261813&highlight_key=y&keyword1=%20bl og%20template>

I tried it on a different blog with a similar issue and it didn't solve the
issue for me, but it's still worth a try anyway.
Roger

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