Most of the past week has been spent revamping the look of the blog. Why… because I’m obsessive compulsive I suppose, at the expense of having a "normal" routine; which means going to sleep sometime before the sun rises.
Things were going well with the revamp, until my fat fingers managed to get in the way, thereby hosing the WordPress install. Good thing I backed up recently.
There was another blog theme that I originally opted to go with last week. I received a few positive comments on it, and would have liked to have used it, however there were some widgets that didn’t function as I anticipated out of the box (after WP2.5 install); getting them to function became too convoluted of an effort for me.
Another negative, was the amount functionality geared toward advertisement. Just not part of the plan to have advertisements blanket the blog, so that had to go.
Another hiccup this weekend, came by way of opting for the WordPress 2.5 upgrade. I read the instructions, (something we guys don’t normally do) and still had issues. I think that’s where the trouble began. Hey, that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it anyway. End result, I couldn’t log on to my WP Dashboard, database was fouled up etc. Did I say "Thank God for Back Ups?".
The next week will be spent re-mapping image links to their respective posts, specifically older posts prior to mid February. Top commenter stats are now displaying properly, with Pistol Pete being the "Top Dog". The "official" count on the race to the 100th commenter is sitting at 79.
With all of that said, Got Fruit has a new theme with a cleaner and leaner feel and is back up and running… of course you would know this already if you happen to be reading this right now wouldn’t you?
Grace and peace be with you.
It appears that a few posts and comments were lost from the days leading up to the outage, so I’m spending the next few evenings inputting comments that we’re recoverable but that did not import back into WordpPress correctly.
