I can view a Preview if I right click the Preview button and copy the link, but not if I press it. That won't work with the Publish button though.

I was able to publish 3 posts 2 days ago, but I haven't been able to publish anything since yesterday.

I'm using the latest Opera browser...

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

Anyone know how to fix?

Text link:
<a href="SITE URL">BLOG TITLE TEXT</a>

Image link:
<a href="SITE URL"><img src="IMAGE URL" title="" alt="" /></a>

I have a problem that I don't know how to solve it, i tried everything. More then a few months everything worked well, including yesterday but today when I checked almost all of the features images from posts were gone. Even if the images are shown in post-edit-page, after the page is published the feature image is gone.
I tried removing the feature images from the posts, re-replace it, it doesn't show at all. I tried creating new posts with new feature images and is the same.

All I know I did was to activate the Akismet plugin to protect the blog from spam.
Could it be because of this, can anybody help?

A link to the blog can be viewed here, I am suing a modified Deep Focus theme powered by WordPress:
http://www.cg-underworld.org/artwork/

Thank you

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