Theme Browser “Fixed”

Posted in: WordPress, Development, alexking.org

I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough - not working.

This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed.

I had moved the theme browser from my site (to reduce server load) to my hosting account at Joyent a long time ago, and set it up on the domain managedtasks.com. The frameset page and the top frame were hosted on alexking.org, while the bottom frame - the theme viewer - was on managedtasks.com.

This combination stopped working because the browsers changed their cookie security settings. If you have your cookies set to “only accept cookies from sites I visit”, then your browser was rejecting the cookie from managedtasks.com (because the URL in your browser was alexking.org).

If this cookie wasn’t set, the proper theme was not displayed; hence the theme browser being :scare: broken :/scare: .

I’ve moved it all onto managedtasks.com now, and everything appears to work again.

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Posted April 29th, 2008 @ 11:32 AM

7 Replies

  1. JD Hartley adds this Comment:

    Great! I have been wondering when this will have been fixed. Glad to see it up and running again.

    -JD

    April 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

  2. talishte adds this Comment:

    nice code

    April 29th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  3. Kathie M. Thomas adds this Comment:

    Thank goodness for that! I was getting frustrated every time I came to visit and didn’t know how to fix the problem from my end.

    April 30th, 2008 at 2:50 am

  4. Dendi Reza adds this Comment:

    Glad to hear this :D

    April 30th, 2008 at 3:34 am

  5. Megapixels adds this Comment:

    Great. I’ve been looking for a new theme. There’s no shortage of choices here.

    April 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am

  6. David Esrati adds this Comment:

    I was wondering how you set up the boolean categories on the theme browser-
    this is a function I’d love to use on some sites I’ve built.

    May 5th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

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