{"id":2804,"date":"2010-09-18T06:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T10:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2010-09-18T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T10:44:16","slug":"there-is-nothing-more-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"There is nothing more annoying&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then a WordPress plugin that WON&#8217;T update correctly.<!--more-->Yes this is the Angry Systems Administrator and I&#8217;m going to vent a bit. We have a plugin we like called &#8220;Tweet This.&#8221; The author of this plugin has been updating it quite a bit of late. This, in and of its self, is not a bad thing. However, every single time I&#8217;ve tried to update it using WordPress 3&#8217;s &#8220;Super Duper deluxe, new and improved&#8221; update function, the update has failed.<\/p>\n<p>Now the work around is to go to the authors site and download it there, extract the files and then upload it into the plugins directory with an FTP client.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, a massive hands on task rather then the simple &#8220;Click the check box and install&#8221; that this version of WordPress uses.<\/p>\n<p>This has been happening more and more of late. Recently Disqus released an update and it failed as well,\u00a0causing\u00a0me to have to go the manual route. I was under the impression that th new version of WP would relieve me of that\u00a0onerous\u00a0maintenance chore.<\/p>\n<p>HAH!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m trying to update the back end when you come to the blog and see a big sign saying we&#8217;re in maintenance mode, updating and to come back later. When the update fails, I have to wait a good 10 minutes for the locks to clear so I can go back in and fix the problems. (Yes I can go in under the hood and clear the lock, but I don&#8217;t want to)<\/p>\n<p>Now, not all plugin updates are causing this issue. While this last one broke&#8230;again, another that was due for an update went in with no issues.<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to the alt mines.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-2804\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"0fa61f4355\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_2804_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(2804, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_2804_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(2804, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_2804_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(2804, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_2804_4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(2804, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_2804_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(2804, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(0, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (<strong>2<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>0.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_2804_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-2804-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes this is the Angry Systems Administrator and I&#8217;m going to vent a bit. We have a plugin we like called &#8220;Tweet This.&#8221; The author of this plugin has been updating it quite a bit of late. This, in and of its self, is not a bad thing. However, every single time I&#8217;ve tried to update it using Wordpress 3&#8217;s &#8220;Super Duper deluxe, new and improved&#8221; update function, the update has failed. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=2804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,57],"tags":[40,57],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-general-housekeeping","tag-technology"],"views":2466,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25721,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=25721","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":0},"title":"Yet another broken plugin","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"February 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. I just tried running an update for the Disqus plugin we use for comments on this site. It's safe to say that the update was \"Not Ready for Prime Time.\" The update ran normally, and when completed, broke the Blog. Fortunately,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/totally-shocked-300x200.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23959,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=23959","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":1},"title":"Site update, broken plugin","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"April 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. About an hour ago, I updated one of our plugins. This one is a big plugin and we use it for a lot of things on the Blog. It's called Jetpack.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":43011,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=43011","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":2},"title":"This is annoying. Comment plugin crashed site","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"June 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. I woke up to a downed site this morning, not something I want to deal with before having coffee. When I checked the blog, all I saw was a blank white screen. I've seen this before and it usually means a bad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/80\/55\/44\/805544ec6a35ca6e864468f554cbf7b6.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3813,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=3813","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":3},"title":"Site sluggishness","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"April 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings, This is the Angry Systems Administrator coming to you from sunny downtown Burbank. Ok, It's not downtown and I'm not in Burbank but it is sunny out. :)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23966,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=23966","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":4},"title":"Intel Agencies still stonewalling","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"April 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. As noted yesterday, we had a problem with the Jetpack plugin and had to remove it. Jetpack has been fixed and is restored, with the developers apologizing for the bad update. What a pity that the United States intelligence services can\u2019t seem to grasp the fact that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the_three_stooges-241x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":763,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=763","url_meta":{"origin":2804,"position":5},"title":"Yet another Systems Update, Friend Feed this time","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"September 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi there good people. While The Angry Webmaster is busy venting his spleen, I've been working on the back end again. I've just found and activated a Friend Feed API. 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