I’ve been wanting to blog. I’ve been dying to blog. But in a previous incarnation of WP, my blog was hacked by idiot spammers who managed to worm their way into posts whose comments had been closed for years and years.
Thanks to a tech friend of mine, most of what could be fixed is fixed and I’ve moved to a different Web host. I know there’s still tweaking to be done. If I thought my categories needed an overhaul before, well, I’m in real trouble now. Some of the categories are listed twice! I can’t get my old Archives and Categories pages to display what they should and have no idea why or how.
Commenters’ Gravatars are supposed to show up, but they don’t, or at least they don’t on the old posts and when I wrote a test post along with a test comment. That plugin is now built in to this version of WP and I even set up the default picture to display if someone doesn’t have a Gravatar. But what-the-fuck-ever. Oh, and I have to redo all my old Ubernyms, you know, the plugin that explains stuff, specifically for new readers, like who Hopper is, etc., except now I’m using one called Acronyms.
I realize part of this is because of the server move, but still — WP changes so fast it’s like, if you turn your head, just for a moment, you’re left behind. Fuckers.
Hiya Barb! Someone on Twitter made a comment about WP 2.7 and newer. (Does 2.7 sound right?) But I guess there’s problems w/it. Mine was 2.1.2, I figured it worked well so I left it, well, when I still had it, lol.
Both you & Ananke attempt to do stuff on WP that I’d never ever try, but of course that’s probably because I completely deleted 1 blog design that way.
I’m glad you put up a new post.
2.7.1 to be exact. So there’s problems with it, is there? Well, at least I know it isn’t me! I had 2.3.? when I stopped blogging last fall or so, apparently that version had security issues, which is why I got hacked. I think I’d totally freak if I deleted a blog theme, especially a custom one! I like change, but Christ, it happens so fast with WP. Almost too fast.
I’m sure some of my stuff, like from Ubernyms, got lost when I switched hosts, but still. It’s hard to tell if you’re doing something wrong or if it’s them, you know?
That is very true Barb. WordPress HAS changed a lot. That sucks that those hackers got into your blog. I would have been pissed off… REALLY peeaved if something like that happened to me.
I was totally pissed! But probably more frustrated than anything. Apparently, I hadn’t changed my version of WP fast enough. I also switched to one of the web hosts that WP recommends. Hopefully that’ll help in the future.