IE-specific WordPress error

September 21, 2008 1:25 PM

Question about WordPress, IE, and peculiar "no posts matched your criteria" errors.

Using "The Future Is Now," a plugin that allows you to show future posts on WordPress, I set it up so that readers of a particular weblog could start discussion threads under "'upcoming" posts, not just published ones.

The "discuss" link works great under Firefox. But under Internet Explorer 7, on the other hand, it returns a confusing error: "No posts matched your criteria."

This seems baffling. Any ideas why WP links would behave differently on different browsers?

The links in question look like this:

http://website.com/?p=1395

And the code that goes there is pretty basic...A link to a PHP'd-in "the_permalink()," plus some style stuff.

Any help much appreciated!

posted by johngoren to computers & internet (6 comments total)

The link could possibly be a postback (it could send $_POST values to the search page). If you can give a link to a live site, that would make this a lot easier to figure out.
posted by tmcw at 2:34 PM on September 21, 2008

Ok, sure, here's the link to the site I've been developing: link.
posted by johngoren at 3:54 PM on September 21, 2008

http://radioinsidescoop.com/?p=1395

Windows 2008, IE6: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Windows 2008, IE7: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Windows 2008, IE8: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Windows 2008, Firefox 3.0: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Windows 2008, Google Chrome: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

Urf? Seems to always work predictably to me.
posted by SirStan at 4:35 PM on September 21, 2008

Windows XP, Firefox 3.?: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
Windows XP, Firefox 2.0.0.? Portable: Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.

Are you by chance logged in as an author/user/editor/admin (or ANY wordpress user) in Firefox? That might be why it works for YOU in Firefox, but not IE (which I assume you are only using for testing -- and not actually logged into the site). The answer may lay in permissions.
posted by SirStan at 4:41 PM on September 21, 2008

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I'll bet it's user login-related. (I'm logged in on Firefox Mac and testing on Parallels IE.)

In that case, would any of you folks have a good idea of how to get around a permissions problem like that?
posted by johngoren at 5:09 PM on September 21, 2008

Wordpress does not allow users to view future posts (which is the issue you are having) who are anonymous. The comment by Shacker here (@August 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm) seems to suggest the plugin makes it "work".

Are you sure you are doing something that the plugin supports?
posted by SirStan at 5:18 PM on September 21, 2008