I really should stop fiddling with things that I don’t entirely understand. I decided that I should get with the program and update my version of WordPress. I’m glad I did, everything seems that little bit better. Anyway, I thought when I upgraded to WordPress 2.6, then maybe I should give the blog a facelift as well and install a new theme. Let me say now – I am never ever ever ever going to do that again!
Firstly, I couldn’t get my nice new pretty one to actually work properly. For some reason, the name of my blog wasn’t coming up in the header, it named my blog wrongly, didn’t put in the links….it needed a LOT of tinkering and most of it had to be done with the mysterious style.css file. Mysterious to me because I only know enough HTML language to be dangerous and the CSS file is in the zone of “WTF” for me.
After tinkering with the heaven theme for a while, I decided that was just too hard. Tried a sleeping kitty one but hated the colour scheme – to change it would require fiddling with that CSS thing again. The purple kitty one, well I couldn’t read the font all that well so figured that other people probably couldn’t either. Black cat didn’t unzip properly and red cat just didn’t register. That left me with a three column theme called “wall sitting cat” which I thought was great when I saw it as a free theme.
I unzipped it once – got a bunch of errors. Extracted it again and it seemed fine. So I FTP’d it to the server, only to find that it wreaked utter havoc with everything. I had errors galore showing up, so I tried to delete it. No joy there – the files were deleted but the folders were still there and I couldn’t get rid of them. Log back into WordPress and three big huge lines of text suggesting that baby did a bad, bad thing.
So I did what I usually do when I pork something up – I posted a thread on WordPress support asking for advice, switched the computer off, went to work and hoped when I got home it would have mysteriously fixed itself. Well it hadn’t by the time I got home but by morning it was hunky dory again – thanks Leigh!
So moral of the story – if it ain’t brucked, don’t change it…..or else you probably will well and truly bruck it.












