For those who watch this type of stuff (and those who want the link from this little old site), you’ll be glad to know that your link is back. I did weed a few from my blogroll, as I never read them and they weren’t related to my site any more. Thanks for your patience. Check it out at the link on the top, if you care to.
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I borked Wordpress pretty badly. I think that I’ve fixed the issue (or maybe I have…). You might see some funkiness beyond the writing here…
I was wondering what people are experiencing as far as speed when they visit this site. Do you find that the pages load slowly? Are they quite quick in relation to other pages? I’d really like to know what I’m up against, as this server is supposed to be quite the work horse - but I’m not feelin’ it.
Oh, and if I don’t know you, can you say what country that you’re from if you choose to comment? That’ll help me figure out what to do with this whole hosting thing. Thanks.
Four days ago, the Wordpress team announced the release of the first beta of the new 2.3 release. I’ve made no secret of the fact that this blog runs on a nightly development build, which I update about once a week (its noted in the footer of every page - linked too!).
The new tagging structure is in place and, seemingly, it performs reasonably well so far. I’ve been keeping up with the releases of Ultimate Tag Warrior and haven’t felt like trying to use the built in tags yet (although I have been using both to record the tags). With all of the topsy-turvy behavior with this site in this month, I’m surprised that anything actually works (and, if you’d seen what I’d done to cobble it back together, you’d be amazed too - enough to buy me a Keiths,especially since 8-pacs of cans are on sale).
The only speed bump that I’ve come across is a few compatibility issues with plugins, which are minor. With the new fallback to disable misbehaving plugins, I’ve not been worrying about that type of problem. The only thing that I’ve had an issue with is when activating or deactivating one, I don’t return to the plugin page. All I get is a blank page. I can get back by “erasing” the trailing end of the URL in the address bar to get back to just the plugin page. Whatever I’ve asked for has been done, so the function is there. Its just the “redirect” afterwards, which is a minor semantic fix. I may contact the various plugin authors for the ones that I use so that they can update their work this weekend.
As you can see, my site’s still here, despite a major hard drive failure. So, why not get more than your toes wet. The water’s nice!
Maybe comments are broken, as I don’t see any….LOL
Sorry about the last few days “disappearing” from this site, but I found a better and more recent back up that was taken closer to the day of the big crasheroo and I don’t quite know how to merge the latest stuff into my current database. I’ll try to get it back without messing up the whole thing.
By the way, as you may or may not have noticed, I’ve bee displaying the Rootly widget in my side bar. Has anyone found this interesting or useful? Is it worth keeping? Does it load slowly? I was wondering about that, as I kind of like what they aggregate, but its not super important to me. If it takes away, I don’t want it.
So, in case it was noticed (or not), I have added back the last few posts by hand, along with the comments. Rather than try to merge the databases, I did some “magic” and edited the timestamps on my copy/pasted stuff to be the same as it was when originally posted by everyone. So now I can get back on subject, or whatever.
Its been quite topsy-turvy here at cooreythompson.com. I believe that everything should settle back to normal shortly. I’ve restored the site’s structure and permissions as they were about a month ago and have tried to upload the most recent database (including a few posts from the other host).
If you’re warped enough to want to read my writing on a regular basis and you’re still here, then thanks. I appreciate that you stuck around. A week of down time is a long time on the internet and I know that I wasn’t too fond of it, either.
I’ve still got a few things to fix up, but I think that I can get things back to normal. The photo gallery is not working at the moment and I may just scrap it and try again, maybe with a newer script. Who knows.
By the way, I’m still mucking with the latest Wordpress here, which at the moment, is still considered alpha software, although its been quite solid and the new features (mostly nice little “behind the scenes” and “under the hood” stuff) are quite nice.
I see that, for the most part, my site has propagated around the world to be pointing at Frihost’s server again. I don’t know how long this will last, as its quite burdened and this site doesn’t help much.
So, if you’ve noticed that some images are missing and that its not quite “the same”, it will be returned to normal over the next few days.
As my paid host says, “Thank you for your patience. I need a little more time.”
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