«
»

“Now Reading” plugin and WordPress 2.8

Overall my WordPress 2.8 upgrade went fairly well, at least as far as any site visitors would see. The admin was a different story.1 After some poking around2 I was surprised to find out it was Rob Miller‘s fabulous Now Reading WordPress plugin3 preventing me from editing posts.

I’m not sure exactly what changed in WordPress to trigger the issue, but after some poking I tracked down the problem, and I think I found a solution other than removing the plugin.

In the file wp-content/plugins/now-reading/url.php, look for the following:

function is_now_reading_page() {
global $wp;
$wp->parse_request();

I commented out the call to $wp->parse_request(); and it fixed the problems I was having with the site admin, and so far it seems Now Reading is unaffected by this change.

  1. If you’ve ever used the Google Gears/Turbo Mode stuff in the WordPress Admin, I advise you to do the upgrade in a different browser because it seems to be responsible for a lot of problems folks are having with the automated upgrade [↩]
  2. and upgrading one of my own plugins [↩]
  3. It powers the library pages here on the site. [↩]
Tags: , , , ,

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 8:28 am and is filed under technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

6 Comments

  1. Posts about plugins as of June 14, 2009 | All About WordPress says:
    6/14/2009 at 1:13 pm

    […] that are hosted on WordPress.com or else, &#87&#111&#114dpress would delete those blogs without “Now R&#101&#97&#100ing” Plugin and WordPress 2.8 – jasonpenney.net 06/14/2009 Ove&#114&#97&#108l my WordPress 2.8 upgrade went fairly well, at […]

  2. Brian says:
    7/3/2009 at 8:32 am

    I have not upgraded to 2.8 yet — I’ve been nervous of incompatibilities w/ plugins.

    Just curious on this one, however — was it the “original” Now Reading, or the updated one from “A Modest Construct”: http://heliologue.com/projects/now-reading-for-wordpress-27/

  3. Hamming says:
    7/21/2009 at 1:53 pm

    What is the difference between the new 2.8 version and the old one? I wanna upgrade, but decide to wait and see how good it is.

  4. Jason Penney says:
    7/23/2009 at 8:41 am

    @Brian – It was the original Now Reading. I was unaware of the other one.

  5. Alyna says:
    7/23/2009 at 5:12 pm

    Hi there!
    I also have a problem with now reading. It only works to add a new book. If I click on manage books after I have added the book. It works perfectly. Otherwise, if I try to use the menu on the left, both manage books and options don’t seem to work. An error message is displayed: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
    I have implemented your solution and it doesn’t seem to work.
    Do you have any idea what might be the problem?

  6. Ben says:
    7/24/2009 at 10:34 am

    @Alyna – WordPress 2.8.1 made a few changes to the way menus are handled on the admin side; the old Now Reading breaks. It should be fixed in my updated version, however.