{"id":659,"date":"2007-06-26T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2007-06-26T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:00:32","slug":"and-i-think-were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"And, I think we’re back…"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the blog upgrades are now done and everything seems to be working OK.\u00a0 It’s nice that software developers continually upgrade their programs and provide bug fixes, but it does get annoying at times to have to do these constant upgrades.\u00a0 This is my third\u00a0upgrade this year (it’s only June)\u00a0and I have skipped others that I could have done.\u00a0 Once upon a time, I was a software developer myself and, having to work with my customers to upgrade their systems, I always tried to make it as painless as possible.\u00a0 But it’s never completely painless…<\/p>\n

So, for the moment, anyway, we’re on the current release of WordPress (2.2.1)<\/a>.\u00a0 All of the security issues in the old release have been (supposedly) plugged – now we just have to wait for the hackers to find the holes in this release \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0Even the\u00a0spelling checker works now!\u00a0 But\u00a0WordPress still can’t handle whitespace very well.\u00a0 The pre 2.0 releases\u00a0handled it just fine – if you wanted a couple of blank lines in your post, just hit the Return bar a couple of times and there you go.\u00a0 Now, all of the extra whitespace is automatically deleted by the editor, an attempt, I suppose, to force everyone to modify the .css files instead.\u00a0 Of course that complicates future upgrades…\u00a0 WordPress has now also made Widgets the\u00a0preferred method of maintaing the Sidebar (Widgets\u00a0used to be available as a plugin, now it’s part of core code).\u00a0 I could have kept all of my old sidebar hacks, but did want to upgrade to the new method, and that, of course, also complicated things.\u00a0 They have\u00a0Widgets called “Text Boxes”, basically places where you can plug in HTML code and place them on the sidebar where you want.\u00a0 But\u00a0Text boxes can’t handle php.\u00a0 For that you need a plugin (Execphp), so I had to install that, too.\u00a0 But at the end of the day it all seems to work and, I hope, future upgrades will be less lengthy…<\/p>\n

I’ve also upgraded to the current release of the WordPress theme I use, Blix Krieg<\/a>.\u00a0 It is an offshoot of the original Blix theme, one which does not seem to be maintained anymore.\u00a0 Blix Krieg is maintainted by theDuck, an Aussie who seems like a nice chap.\u00a0 And the theme works flawlessly.<\/p>\n

I’ve also\u00a0dumped Sitemeter – it was just so unreliable.\u00a0 It lost several days of statistics for me on more than one occasion, and I’ve long suspected it if undercounting my site visitors.\u00a0 In it’s place, I’ve installed StatCounter<\/a>.\u00a0 Perhaps it’s just a busy day today, but already my site stats are higher than before.<\/p>\n

Finally, I’ve also fixed (I hope) my RSS feeds.\u00a0 I was using Feedburner<\/a> but discovered, much to my dismay, that somehow I was burning two Feedburner feeds.\u00a0 Perhaps this is why they weren’t working properly.\u00a0 I’d like to thank all of my readers who took the time to either drop an comment or email to me to let me know how my RSS feed was working (or not) for them.\u00a0 Hopefully, this is a solved problem now, too.<\/p>\n

As always, if you run into something on my blog that doesn’t work, please let me know.<\/p>\n

Now all I have to do is to get the long delayed photo gallery up and running and I’ll be all set…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of the blog upgrades are now done and everything seems to be working OK.\u00a0 It’s nice that software developers continually upgrade their programs and provide bug fixes, but it does get annoying at times to have to do these constant upgrades.\u00a0 This is my third\u00a0upgrade this year (it’s only June)\u00a0and I have skipped others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}