WordPress 2.0 Annoyances
I’ve encountered two annoying things with WordPress 2.0, and neither thing is directly WordPress’ fault. Both are a problem with ZoneAlarm Pro, my firewall.
One, the “enable referrers” problem surfaced tonight, and I think it’s solved–I had to enable Private Headers for my blog site. Easy enough. If you’ve encountered this and your browser settings are correct, scroll down for other security settings to adjust.
The second relates to logging in. On my machine at home, I prefer to remain permanently logged in (I live alone, and neither the cat nor dog has demonstrated a propensity to blog in my absence, sooo I consider this risky practice acceptable). This worked very well on earlier versions of WP. Somehow, with the upgrade, ZoneAlarm won’t honor that. It must be some stupid setting I need to toggle, but I’m not finding it. I only had to turn ZA off once, but I still have to click through the login screen before getting in.
I encountered the same problem with Barnes and Noble University, only I had to turn ZoneAlarm off before the Java window would come up properly. Sayyy…Aha! I found it. I had to add a not-so-obvious URL to ZA’s privacy section.
Now if I could just figure out what’s making me have to click though on the blog login…
I think the click through on the login thing is a WP bug. I saw mention of it on their list. I think they’re going to release 2.0.1 soon, which is supposed to fix it.
Or it could be that your computer has finally come to life and is revolting. It’s happened more than once that I’ve found my computer to be revolting … 🙂
Computers can be very revolting, Tech. Jaime, the only reason I think it may not be all WordPress is I stay logged in on another machine that doesn’t use ZoneAlarm.