Sorry, I brucked it!
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.
July 18th, 2008 | Category: Internet
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July 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Stormy that pic is stunning, that would look great in a frame on a wall… Its funny hey I was just thinking about u and then came back on and there was a post … ( dont stress I am not a stalker) LMAO, but may I add after reading that and now typing I have black lines through my sight on the key board must be the darkness of the screen <<< hope u kow what I am on about LMAO
July 18th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Which pic in particular Mes? Since there are none in this post, I’m not sure which you’re referring to. The blog is functional now, so any dramas might be with your own PC.
July 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
LOL I hate how every time you go into admin it tells you that you need to upgrade wp. And choosing a new theme is right up there with poking hot skewers in my eyes for enjoyment.
July 18th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
The picture at the top a stunning cat with the blue eyes to match the horizon ?
July 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Oh the header image, I can’t take claim for that.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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