The WordPress theme browser is back up and running again after ~48 hours of downtime. For those who are curious, here is what happened:
Last week, I had to rewrite the theme switcher plugin because it was killing the server it was running on. The original theme switcher code was traversing every directory in each of the 135+ theme directories looking for themes, which basically keeps the disk working way too hard. I’ve basically cached that information now, so the poor other folks on one.textdrive.com won’t have to suffer because of it.
Right after that change was made, the cookie domain got messed up in the code. That was at exactly the same time the servers were being moved to the new TextDrive data center, so I wrote it off as a migration bug that would probably get fixed. When it didn’t get fixed, I dug further and found the problem (now fixed).
Now you can go on and get your fix. 😉
UPDATE: Strange, it works fine if you click on the theme links on the page, which use the same URL as the theme browser code, but it doesn’t seem to want to work in the frameset. Unfortunately, I can’t get into the server right now, so I’m not able to debug or fix it.
UPDATE #2: Finally got in and was able to “fix” the problem – commented out a header call that has been there since the theme browser was first brought online. No idea why it needed to be changed now, but it seems to work again.
Whenever I select a theme, it just defaults back to the standard theme (Kubrick). I’m using Safari?
Nope, not just Safari… Firefox on Windows, too…. same problem… selecting any theme defaults back to the standard theme.
I don’t suppose either of you read the update above?
Working fine on my firefox/winxp
Thanks for all the work in maintaining the themes.
Its great to have such a resource.
There is still something wrong with it, it’s not going through all of them, its staying on the blue default one …… i cant get to any others. like before.
I tried the theme links, the drop down, and the arrows using WinXP and Internet Explorer. Still goes back to the default.
I’m really looking forward to seeing the creativity here and then figuring out how to do my own!
Since it appears people aren’t reading the update in the post itself, here it is again – please read it:
I read your post, I just haven’t ever commeted on anything…You are the dude Alex. 🙂
The links aren’t working either, Alex. Firefox 1.06., Windows XP, but don’t think my system is at fault here 😉
Well, **I** read the update. The whole post in fact…. 😉
Thanks for getting it back up so quickly….I do enjoy picking themes from your viewer!
maybe a silly question, but: how can i submit a theme for your theme browser? and maybe silly question #2: can your theme browser handle wp 2.0 themes with options pages?