he past few weeks I have been working on my church’s website, which is another WordPress installation. On it I have made numerous modifications, disabling much of what makes WordPress look like a blog, so that it will look like a church website. I just stumbled across the fact that some of the files from that got into this install, disabling the comments to my posts. Maybe that is why nobody has commented for weeks. Well, it’s all back as should be. So if there are no comments, it’s your fault now.
All Things 'WordPress'
just bought this nifty-looking software for my Mac called MacJournal I’m not sure how all the features work. But if this makes it to the blog, then buy the product.
It looks pretty neat any way. My laptop goes with me everywhere I go, but an internet connection doesn’t. That means I have lots of time to write a post but no way to get in my blog to begin a post, or edit posts begun and saved but not published. I’m left with the alternative of writing into a word processor and later cutting and pasting into WordPress later when I am online, at which point I have to add links, graphics, etc. This looks to be much better—if it works. We’ll see. Stay tuned.
he reason no posts have appeared on this blog in over a week is not the reason for the bulk of my sporadic posting. I was on vacation last week and tried as much as possible to stay away from the computer. The typical reason I don’t post for lengthy periods is that I’ve gone on a binge again. No, it’s not cocaine or even booze; I’m addicted to WordPress - rather, I should say that I am addicted to WordPress and the K2 theme.
I, like many, began blogging a number of years ago on Blogger. One day I saw someone raving about WordPress. That was the day I began the long, lonely journey down that dark, endless tunnel. I started out with a wordpress.com account, but that wasn’t enough. As I began to record and podcast the sermons of my pastor I needed more flexibility, so I made the jump to the “org” side of WordPress. Believe me, the possibilities are endless. The only problem is that “endless” means it never ends; a new plug-in to try out; conflicts to resolve; code to figure out.
And then there is that constant revision of WordPress, which generates all kinds of special problems: a plug-in breaks; a theme no longer functions properly; a developer is slow to update, or worse yet, stops developing a plug in all together, and you’ve become dependent on it for that special look and feel, or vital feature. Now comes the search for an adequate replacement: dig, dig, dig, find . . . no - dig, dig, dig, find . . . yes, ah . . . no - dig - aw nuts!
The problems are endless, but I love it. I just love it; everything about it, I simply love it. That is why I post so seldom. I’m too busy under the hood, fiddlin’ and twiddlin’, pokin’ and twistin’. Some time I I do a WordPress post I’ll tell you about my favorite theme, K2, and why it is as bad or worse than the WordPress platform, but in a good sort of way. Maybe you’ve noticed I’ve added a little flash and glam since I last posted. K2 makes that possible, but it’s never enough. There is always something more, something you saw over at so-and-so’s site, and you’re sure you can duplicate it, if you can remember the difference between padding and margin.
This new site began for a number of reasons. At least one of those reasons was that WordPress 2.5 had come out and I wanted to try it out, but I didn’t want to mess with my other blog that hosts a regular podcast. I just noticed yesterday that the beta version of WordPress 2.6 is out. The official release is suppose to be sometime later this month. I have mixed emotions. I’m just getting settled into 2.5.1, and I like it - I think. On the other hand, I can’t wait to see what they have done this time. One last word: I’m addicted.
