My wonderful wife told me today that apparently IE users were getting an error stating: “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site. Operation Aborted.” This issue simply isn’t there in Firefox.   As it turns out, the error was caused by my last post, in which I implemented a new feature in the background — the Wordpress plugin entitled Lightbox 2.   You’ll notice it by clicking on the images in that post.   Since it’s a feature that I’d like to use in the future, I decided to take the time to check under the hood and try to figure out what could be the issue.

As it turns out, it simply has to do with a difference in the way that IE and Firefox render the page.   What you’ll need to do is to tell the Lightbox 2 plugin to render in the footer of the page instead of the header.

• Login to your Wordpress dashboard
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• Look for the Plugins section – if you’re using the latest version, Wordpress 2.7, you’ll find that on the lefthand side just under Appearance.
• Look in your activated plugins for Lightbox 2, and hit Edit.
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• Be very careful not to edit anything you don’t intend to.  The first thing I do is to copy/paste the entire thing into a blank Notepad file that way you can always go back to the original source code if you run into an error.
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• Once you’ve backed up your code, hit CTRL+F and search for wp_head.  As it goes through the code one by one replace the text wp_head with the text wp_footer — and be careful not to change anything but that.
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• I believe there were five of them that needed to be changed.
• Once you’ve changed that, hit the Update File button.

And you’re done!  That will fix the error for Internet Explorer.