Welcome to my new installation of WordPress (2.5.1), hosted at FatCow (along with the rest of my website)! I am super-psyched to have this up and running. It didn’t actually take all that long, aside from the problems I had a) properly updating from 2.3 (which is FatCow’s current 1-click installation option) b) importing posts & comments without breaking the template (damn corrupted drafts) and c) hacking around in the php to update the images in the header. .
The current theme is Upsilon, written by Tim Hyde of Living Open Source. It features a header that runs SmoothGallery, a nifty slideshow tool I had not previously heard of. The php running the slideshow was pretty easy to deal with once I figured out what I was looking at (though there is definitely at least one weird quirk). I came across this theme trolling through the WP theme gallery to find something interesting (”someday” I will go ahead and blend the blog right in with the rest of my site, haha). Interestingly, the theme is one of many written by Tim with the goal of providing good-looking, highly functional themes for churches & other faith communities to use on their blogs. (He’s an IT-guy-turned-minister.) That’s a pretty cool project.
Anyway, you’re going to need to update your RSS feed. I’m sure I could go through some acrobatics to make it so you don’t have to do so, but I think you can handle it. Click on the RSS button in your address bar, use the link in the Admin portion of the sidebar, or scroll way the heck down to the bottom for another RSS link.
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June 25, 2009 in blogging, wordpress by spinstah
At some point (recently? I have no idea) some of the settings regarding comments changed, and if you tried to comment on this blog you got a WordPress login box, which didn’t work for any of you since none of you have an account on my blog. (Since I host this, not WordPress, your WordPress.com login would not have worked either.) That has been fixed. Providing that the email address you enter with your comment has been used on my blog before, the comment should automatically post. (If you haven’t used the address you input to comment here previously, I’ll have to approve the comment.)
This has happened before–the settings seem to change, without any action from me. If you ever go to leave a comment and something funky happens, please do let me know as I have no real way of knowing if anything is wrong unless someone tells me. (After all, it’s not like I get enough comments that a few days without any signifies anything.) Thanks to Abby for the heads up this time!