Comments on: Upgrading WordPress

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:48:22 +0000

The software is fine as long as you don’t try anything fancy. I had to go out and find another template because my initial template kept getting overwritten with every upgrade.

Supposedly the new system won’t mess up tables when you use them. Tables are necessary to make somethings meaningful. Somethings need to be in columns and tables are the best way of accomplishing that. The software gave me holy hell during the World Cup as I used tables to present the results.

It has been fine for most things, but I’m annoyed that it wasn’t broken, but they fixed it anyway – just like Blogger did.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:24:34 +0000

Stella had a Blogger blog a few years ago, but abandoned it. Recently she started up again. (She has since stopped blogging again; it’s apparently just not her “thang.”) The old blog was still visible, but in the interim, she changed email addresses, so Google, which had passworded her old blog, had no way to send her the new password. In the end, she started a whole new blog, with a different URL. Something is wrong with that picture…

IMHO, it is highly ironic that my manually maintained blog, with all its limitations… and believe me, it has many… is still easier to post and (occasionally) to revise the template than any blog created with blogging s/w. I’m not congratulating myself; there’s a lot about the YDD that could not be generalized, period. But my own life has not been nearly so impacted by all these blogging s/w version changes out there as the lives of those who use the latter.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:56:07 +0000

I might have stayed with blogger if they hadn’t nuked my site during the upgrade, and then changed the rules for being a member of the club when I tried to re-join, which is why I can’t comment at your place, Google hates me, so screw them.

It just took two minutes and too many clicks to edit my previous comment. This sucker has a user interface created for programmers not users. There’s entirely too much “see how neat this is” going on.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:47:04 +0000

Now you know why I have stuck with Blogger thru thick and thin. Ran my own server and blogging software before. Been there. Done that. It sucked. Never again. Nowdays all I run is the DNS, and Blogger does the rest.

– Badtux the Lazy Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:46:14 +0000

I just updated the post after looking all over to figure how to update a post, and then to find out how to re-post it after updating.

The problem is that the backend is abbreviated over at their free site, and I assumed that that was the problem, but it isn’t. Things that were obvious and one click away before are now buried and the type faces are smaller. It’s a PITA for people who just want to write and not play with the program.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:30:59 +0000

I can read this. Congratulations.