Month: October 2009

Problems When Uploading Color Cart Green?

I got this comment today:

Hello…Theme looks really cute but it does not work. Doesn’t even change the look. All I have are links and texts…

Uploading a WP theme in a zip with a Mac

WP theme loader makes 2 directories and puts the theme in a subfolder of the same name.
So this is what you get:
wp-content/themes/color-cart-green/__MACOSX/color-cart-green/images/
wp-content/themes/color-cart-green/color-cart-green/
That would explain the stylesheet not taking effect.

The path to the stylesheet is:

wp-content/themes/color-cart-green/stylesheet.css

Not:
wp-content/themes/color-cart-green/color-cart-green/stylesheet.css

To get rid of this mess you must log into your server and find the badly loaded theme and rename the first folder “color-cart-green” to “piece-of-crap” and then move the real theme folder that has all the template files to where its supposed to be /wp-content/themes/.

Or just delete it.

Then if you still want to try it out you can unpack the zip you downloaded from my site and upload it with ftp or if you don’t have an ftp client you can use your control panel if you log into your hosting account and upload it with the file manager.

If I am wrong and this mess isn’t caused by uploading a theme in a zip with a Mac somebody please correct me.

The Is No Place To Order Good Chinese Food From In Fort Greene

wah-wah-wahI don’t care that at a quick glance Fort Greene appears well stocked with Asian Eateries. Yes, there are about 200,000 Thai restaurants on Myrtle (OK, 3). And about 340,000 Chinese restaurants (more like 20) with a few spatterings of Indian occurrences but Thai is Thai and Indian is Indian (not sure why I mentioned it now that I think of it–desperation?) and those Chinese restaurants are not Good Chinese restaurants.

Have you ever eaten in any of the many “Dog Food” Chinese establishments on Myrtle, Dekalb or Park? If you are not sure, here is how to spot a “Dog Food” Chinese restaurant: your order is thrust at you through a bullet proof partition and it is always garbage. Their main focus seems to be deep frying chicken and french fries (the fries are crinkle cut and chicken wings are immensely battered and both have been frozen for about 26 years).

Plus, there are faded pictures of food on the walls. I always know the food is going to suck if there are pictures of it on the walls.

The one acceptable Chinese restaurant on Myrtle does not deliver and is 16 blocks from my house. I don’t want to make the 32 block hike for food, even for Sichuan. As the deprived and lazy grow in numbers if we band together we might be able to get a City ordinance to Force Kum Kao to deliver. Or better yet, entice and entreat several proper Chinese food chefs to move in and open shop.

We Can Do It!