Working on my site a bit today, I noticed that my recent install of “Broken Link Checker” was not functional. Turns out that it was throwing a ton of errors about the DB tables not existing. And indeed, they didn’t. I do a bit of digging, and find that at some point, probably for security sake, I had removed the “Grant” and “Drop” privileges from my WP site user. Once I added those, then reinstalled the plugin, it created the tables, and worked fine.
Second, I couldn’t modify my sidebar widgets. After some messing around, I found that it was due to my modifying my .htaccess file with some content from perishablepress.com. After removing chunks, then adding them back, I found it had to do with this line:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(request|insert|union|declare|drop).* [NC]
Which was blocking the ajax functionality of the page. =/ I’m sure I could modify it a bit to allow these query strings from certain subnets, but it was just easier to remove it. *shrugs*
I’ll probably re-enable that line when I don’t need to modify the sidebar anymore… but for now, it works.
That’s all. Think I’m going to go out and see about replacing the HID bulbs on my 07 Prius.
