Finally got off my duff to move forward with the newer iBlog2 theme and WP 2.9.2 which appears to stick to be the norm until version 3, I guess. It went more smoothly this time. Good gravy what a mess the last WP shift was. I stupidly didn’t back up enough of the key things and lost about the last week’s worth of graphics. Jeremy bailed me out with some of his recovery tools. Definitely an evening I would like to forget.
The downside is that it made me notice how the past calendars don’t function correctly. Dates are shifted into other columns, months have the wrong number of days (March is 28 days long?) and July 2007 had its first week shoved way over into the right-side margin. WP’s discussion forums had complaints in a couple places I found easily. I tinkered around and then decided to turn it off. I think the average person couldn’t care less. What I would give for an simpler editing tool to adjust this damned theme’s tendency to make the post/article titles too large; 28 points is odd, 22 or 24 would be better. Blojsom in 10.4 was pokey yet I had mastered the ability to alter its colors, typefaces and other things critical to me. Eventually, somebody will make a theme for WP with plug-ins that will at least incorporate more than 80 percent of the look I want.
One cool addition was the FAQ page. WP has this page element I never found a use for. With a little experimenting, it became the perfect solution to re-introduce the last FAQ I did in 2004. Time flies. While I was combing through it, I only owned a mere 15 pairs of Chucks! Check it out. See if you have a question for me. Some of you haven’t physically seen nor talked to me on the phone for years, I’m confident there must something. I’m not going to bother with Facebook or any of those social networking sites…they suck! From the ashes of AOL came a worse successor. Especially when there’s a political screed posted by a friend you thought was nice, polite and mild mannered who is secretly a vehement, ignorant and vitriolic Teabagger.