No Contest Running?

[transmutator]

I've set up my contest - Comment and Win! Uproariously, Insane Comedy Brawl! | Uproar Entertainment - and started the contest on Oct 1 of this year through Dec. 15th of this year. It seemed to work fine yesterday but today, when I went to Get Links I received the error message "There are no contest currently running".

My link is [contest_links contest="uproariously_insane_comedy_brawl"] so that's correct. What may have happened?

Once I've finished testing I will end this contest and restart it with the "official" start date of Nov. 1.

[greg]

Originally Posted by transmutator

I've set up my contest - Comment and Win! Uproariously, Insane Comedy Brawl! | Uproar Entertainment - and started the contest on Oct 1 of this year through Dec. 15th of this year. It seemed to work fine yesterday but today, when I went to Get Links I received the error message "There are no contest currently running".

My link is [contest_links contest="uproariously_insane_comedy_brawl"] so that's correct. What may have happened?

Once I've finished testing I will end this contest and restart it with the "official" start date of Nov. 1.

I was going to suggest you check the Timezone setting in WordPress but I posted a comment on your blog and it looks like you timezone setting is correct. I'll dig into the code and see what I can find.

[greg]

Is the date and time correct when you view the contest in the Contest Burner settings?

[transmutator]

Started: October 1, 2009 @ 12:01 am
Ends: December 15, 2009 @ 11:59 pm

This is what CB displays

[transmutator]

I also de-activated the plugins I installed after I installed CB ... then I deactivated all plugins except CB just to see if there was suddenly a conflict. In both instances, still showed No contest running.

Would deactivating and reactivating CB plugin have an effect?

[transmutator]

Since we hadn't come up with a solution for various and sundry "issues" with CB I changed the end date of my contest to 6am this morning. I clicked the "Winners" link and found 4 peeps who won my test contest! [ Winners: 1 THE_REAL_JoshC, 2 Transmutator, 3 gwrey, 4 EnergyMed8 ] ... so parts of CB seem to be running perfectly.
I am thinking about restarting the contest for further testing ... but have a question: If I start a contest for today, then, after the kinks are worked out, change the start date to some future date ... will that be ok?

[transmutator]

Greg discovered the problem ... USER ERROR! I used a comma in my contest title. This comma was converted to an underscore and I did not see that a double underscore was needed in my codes. So, Thank you Greg for helping me. Great job!