Category: Technical Blog

WordPress Theme Viewer Madness!

I was on the phone with my pal, Sheru Arora who was telling me about a theme he liked so we clicked dashboard>>presentation>>get more themes and then navigated to the Theme Viewer and found the theme he liked. Ahhha. We decided I would to try to incorporate & blend some of it’s style (fonts, white content div , white background) and the style for the left& right side bar links in Askmen.com (black background,silvery font color) but keep the title background images red…

I may even move the navbar above the header… At least I am getting paid for this!

After I got off the phone with Sheru,I went about preparing myself for yet another theme overhaul (ate a cookie ) thus mentally prepared, I went back to the Theme Viewer to download it so I could test it out. Well, WP has done something fancy to the site and I can’t find nothing no more.

Doing a Google search for the name of the theme I found tons of people using the theme but had to look hard to find the guy who made the theme. Clicking the link to the theme in the actual theme viewer returned a file not found error.Clicking a link that Google turned up did the same.

Anyone else had problems like this in the last few hours? Because 2 hours ago the Theme Viewer looked plain but worked. Now it looks fancy and doesn’t work.

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Note to Self

Stop deleting your emails,dummy. You’ve got Gmail which lets you archive emails instead of deleting them. Had you known this instead of thinking it was some kind of ignorable Voo Doo you would’ve been able to recover some important information by performing a simple mail search….instead of having to ask the person to resend it.And thereby saving you hours of time spent waiting for this rather slow moving person to email you back.
You could’ve been done with the changes requested by now. Instead you are locked out of the ftp account because you deleted that email.

You are stupid.

WP Tiger Admin

I decided to give a test run of Ordered List’s
redesign of the default WP admin pages. I have to say that I never had a problem with the way the default WP admin looked and functioned but I thought it looked like it might be useful to some of my clients.
Well, I really like the way the uploads page works. But probably because I am so used to the default look and feel I find everything else a little awkward .
Here I am writing this post using the code mode of the editor in a tiny little text area that floats all the way to the right instead of centered in the middle of the page. I suspect the developer wrote the code for a mac(the screenshots look like they’re from off a mac). I could probably open up the files and fix this but I have other things to do. So I am undecided if this plugin works that well. Another problem is that IE 6 doesn’t even recognize this plugin at all. Maybe IE 7 likes it better but I only use FireFox. Our computer totally freaked outwhen we tried to download IE7 (it was super freaky) which is why when I use the IE Tab FF extension I see what IE 6 sees.. But try it out for yourself. You might like it…WP Tiger Admin

Great Success!

I met up with my father last night to talk about his site and etc but I was so happy to see how fabulous he is looking these days. What a difference a summer in the garden can make. He gave me some tomato and basil from the garden-and they were delicious.

We made serious headway with plans for the site,too. He showed me the printouts of the site so we could talk about content and I was happy to see the site prints very well.

We agreed that Georgia was a fine font and we agreed to get rid of all the strange punctuation. In my defense I copied and pasted the content from the old site into the new one and perhaps, like the game of telephone, things became even more confused during this process. All sites should have correct spelling and grammar and punctuation but literary sites especially have to watch this area.

I feel bad that my dad has felt like he had egg on his face all this time because of the awkward punctuation. I always meant to do as he asked but always got side tracked by some design issue.

So I have officially nabbed him as editor! And he should be good at it because he did it for a magazine for many years.

The biggest achievement was the both of us agreeing that he needs to switch hosts. Switching hosts will save him over 140 dollars a year and greatly improve our options for expanding the site. All in all it was a very good meeting.

The tomatoes and basil went right into the pasta sauce for my dinner. Yum.