WordPress

Now that I’ve been blogging for awhile, I thought I’d post a bit about the process. I understand that many people come here without any interest in the mechanics of blogging. If so, then just skip this post. Others will be familiar enough with technical issues that all this will seem way too simple. Again, just skip the post. If I make any mistakes in attempting to explain this, however, I’m hope someone with more technical knowledge than I have will let me know.

I started out, lo these couple of years ago, using the free and easy Blogger service provided by Google. The old version of this blog is still there; I’ll probably get around to deleting it at some point. After a couple of months I got tired of the limitations imposed by blogspot. I had my own domain and host; after a little digging I discovered that my host would install WordPress with just a button press. WordPress imports posts from Blogger, so I installed it and had it do that. I then had to manually import all of my images. That was kind of a pain, but not hard to figure out. (CONTINUED) ⇒

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Not sure why. Working on it…

Update

16 February 2007: Working again. Somehow the code to call the “SRG Clean Archives” plugin got lost from the archives page.

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To Wordpress 2.3. Basic functionality is fine, but some features still not working. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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For awhile, the front page of the site wasn’t working. I traced the problem down to a plugin conflict involving the display of links in the sidebar. For now, no links. Sorry about any inconvenience.

These darn computers!

Update: I will be testing out possible fixes for this bug. If you have problems loading the first page, or if you get weird display issues, just try again in a few minutes.

Update 1/28/07: No tags either until the plugin I was using for that function is updated to work with Wordpress 2.1. I’m feeling like I should have waited a couple of weeks before upgrading. I’ll be more prudent next time.

Update 1/31/07: Tags are back. The problem I’m having with the sidebar appears to be unique to this site. Wonderful.

Update 2/4/07: With an update to the “Sidebar Widgets” plugin, the sidebar and all other features are working properly. Isn’t it great the way computers make our lives so much easier?

In the unlikely event that you’re interested, this graph shows what the upgrade did to the number of visits per day. Notice the gap.

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You may have noticed that this site was down or displaying completely wrong over the last couple of days. That’s because I attempted to upgrade my version of Wordpress (from 2.05 to 2.1) and messed it up. Compounding my error, I tried the upgrade the day before I had to drive to Portland Maine for three days for work and had no time to try to fix the site.

It’s now better, but not completely back up. I’ll keep working on it until the site is functioning properly again. My apologies for any inconvenience. I’ll try not to let this happen again.

Update

Everything now seems to be displaying properly. The site seems to load more quickly with the new version of Wordpress. Please let me know if you have any problems.

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