Off The Walt

Most of you that know me know that I operate the largest independent podcast group in the world, Kore New Media .

I used to literally have 17 WordPress blogs for show notes, news and more for said podcast group, but found that I was "in the weeds" (to use a hospitality term) on a regular basis. Eventually I figured out how to get all my podcast feeds running out of a single WordPress installation (thanks to Blubrry PowerPress WordPress Podcast Plugin and an assist from the staff there) but recently when trying to update a category (I wanted to get interviews from beneath Kore Movies to a global category) I couldn’t find it to edit.

After a search of the toobs, I found David Cumps’s blog where he details how he fixed the problem.

It involves messing with the database and I’m lazy, so I didn’t wanna do that bit. He does mention that you can fill in the description after doing the database bit and then going manually to each category the way WordPress sees it, as a cat_ID and refilling the info in:

After I’ve done this, I visited my admin section and noticed the Descriptions were filled in again. But there was no Name, and all my posts still had empty categories linked to them.

To fix this, visit http://your-site/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=1 where 1 is the category id to edit. Fill in a Name and a Slug, the url name for your category, and save it.

Repeat this process for all your categories, until they all have a Name again.

What I did was cycle through 77 categories on Kore Notes.com by updating the number at the end of the URL: http://your-site/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=1

I eventually found the offending category, updated it to have no parent and it suddenly showed up in the category list the way it should and sorts just fine on the public side of the blog.

Thanks to David and as he says in the opening of his blog post, I put this up in case others need help and are lazy like me. (He didn’t say he was lazy though!)

There was a confirmed case of Swine Flu or the H1-N1 Virus at Hallandale Elementary School here in South Florida. For those of you not down here, Hallandale is the city farthest South you can be in and still be in Broward County (Miami-Dade is next).

Fortunately for my family, we live in the farthest North city in Broward County, Pompano Beach, but this still has us concerned. Do we keep the kids out for school until this blows over? Do we lock ourselves in the house and stock up as if there were a hurricane coming?

*sigh* Why can’t people stop shaking hands and sneezing on people? All I want in life is a healthy family with two kids to carry our hope to the next generation. Stop doing things that get in the way of my dreams.