Posted by Kirk M on 14 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Misc posts
My good friend Elaine over at Elaine’s Place took the plunge several months ago and decided to "do-it-herself" and tackle her own WordPress install and I have to say she has done it in style. Especially since she absolutely despises doing upgrades and she deserves even more credit because of it. And now it’s time [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 09 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
…there’s no edit function any longer for the comment form and that some of your bookmarks go to 404 pages it’s due to turning off 3 plugins in an effort to keep things working properly.
There’s a problem with the site in that it’s a sub-domain of my wife’s business website which she manages with MS [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 05 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
Alrighty then. After backing up my database, theme, plugins and all sorts of other crap, starting with a brand new fresh WP install, importing my database, reinstalling all my plugins, setting up this that and the other thing…
(deep breath)
…my beloved ol’ blog is back up and running full steam and (so far) the problems [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 28 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
In case anyone who has sent trackbacks to one of my posts and not received an acknowledgment from me (as I like to do) or have not seen your trackback on the respective post, please leave a common on the post you sent the trackback to saying so.
The Simple Trackback Validation plugin was doing too [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 03 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Misc posts
Didn’t I just write up a post recently about getting into the technical end of things too much. Didn’t I state that I needed to keep a close eye on myself?
Yeah, I did. So what am I doing?. Troubleshooting a niggling problem with an otherwise great redirection plugin that takes care of eliminating stray 404 [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 31 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
True confession time here. After all, it’s always good to know one’s limitations don’t you think? And this one pertains to my personal blogging effort here and my largest associated fault which is…
I’m too technically oriented.
No, I don’t mean in my writing style which is haphazard as my subjects are but rather my overall nature [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin
The mail came in the other day and with it came the renewal notice for my blog’s domain name. Hard to believe it’s that time already and I’ve been banging away at this iteration of my blog for nearly a year now. Seems like I’m still starting out in a lot of ways.
So what have [...] Read more »
Posted by Kirk M on 13 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Misc posts
…something always comes up. But that’s okay since it was helping another blogger with a database error. It’s not fixed yet but we’re still trying. Most of the problem is with the host itself but we won’t go there.
There’s more good news on the horizon for new WordPress do-it-yourselfer’s and especially for those [...] Read more »
