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Ok, so apparently a few of you noticed some weirdness on with CyrusBuilt.Net. Indeed, I did temporarily have some issues. Sorry about that! I committed the rookie mistake of updating a WordPress plugin without backing up my current plugins directory first….

As it turns out, there is an incompatibility between the Safitech 1.7 WP theme and the WP CodeBox plugin by Eric Bess that I normally use to display the pretty code boxes in my posts.  I was able to fix the problem myself in the previous version of WP CodeBox, but not in Version 1.4.  The problem seems to be with the way Safitech and WP CodeBox uses jQuery.  After messing around with it for a while, I decided it wasn’t worth the trouble any more and I switched to the WP Syntax by Ryan McGeary instead.  Both plugins use the GeSHi syntax highlighter, however WP CodeBox is more advanced in that it provides a collapsible codebox and several other settings, which WP Syntax lacks.  However, WP Synatx works.

As far as I can tell, WP Syntax doesn’t use jQuery at all, and therefore has no compatibility issues with Safitech.  I don’t know which one (Safitech or WP CodeBox) is not quite using jQuery right, but one of them must be doing something that isn’t totally supported.  I’m not totally keen on PHP or JavaScript since my experience is somewhat limited, but I couldn’t find the problem by looking into the source code of either one of them.

Either way, the problem (in my case) is resolved now.

Grrrrrr…..