I always upgrade my blog (wordpress) with every new little patch that they release but the last one (2.2) sortof “broke” a few plugins. I ended up having to patch wp-includes/widgets.php because the Executable php Widgets plugin wouldn’t work as-is. I also upgraded other plugins like php-exec, expand-comments (hope this fixes issue with vanishing comments), wpg2, inline-ajax-page, and replaced the old google search plugin with a new, nicer one. (google ajax search) ;) My only gripe with the new google search plugin is that I can’t shut off web searches. It’s still nicer, tho. And just yesterday I installed Spam Karma too. I’ve already got Akismet and Bad Behaviour but you can’t have enough guards against spam or attacks, can you? I’m not sure if keeping Spam Karma means I’ll need to drop Akismet. I’ll keep both until something forces me to decide. So far they’re playing nice together.
After this upgrade was done, I went on to try to speed up the sites. I turned off a few other plugins I didn’t really need and started to tweak my server’s mysql conf file. I still need to go back to that and try to shave a couple seconds of load time off the blogs. Also, now that I have a new and improved camera, I plan on putting lots more photos on here. But I’m not really happy with gallery2’s performance so I upgraded that last week and moved all the javascript from the header to the body so it all doesn’t need to load with the gallery. I’d love to get picasa’s speed here. Goddamn that site is fast.
Future changes include replacing Del.icio.us from the sidebar with the run-of-the-mill blogroll (for speed), and possibly shaving a few words off the about me plugin in the sidebar. Too long! Oh, and way down the road I might replace the image in the header with something new.
I did take a little time yesterday (and will more today) and made a few little changes to the theme. I’ve made so many changes to this theme already that I don’t know if I should give it a new name or something and release it as my own invention. LOL! No, I don’t think I can. It’s still based on someone else’s version of k2. 3k2. Maybe I should call it 3k2o. “O” for “Oh yeah, babyyyy!!”.
Hehehe, snort.
C’mon yo! What’s up with my del.ici.us rss link roll, yo! It ain’t working.
I woke up today again too early and feeling lazy as hell. It’s no help that it hasn’t stopped raining. It’s amazing how much time it takes to get two kids up from bed, changed and fed. The little bit of time I had to sit on the couch with my laptop kept getting interrupted by either one of the kids or my own conscience telling me that I still have a lot to get done. I have one (1) load left. It’s in the dryer. I’ve started picking things up around the house but I still have so much more other stuff to do. Xmas cards, printing photos..
Jesus, it’s no wonder sahms become very bitter, uninteresting women if they’re not careful. Nothing to think about other than housework or diaper changing. I haven’t even had time to read the blogs I like. Not one. Every time I start that freakin voice in my head says “you gotta pick up those dishes and declutter the house!”. Dennis owes me when he gets back. I’m going to need me time. Alone time.
I finally decided on a domain name for a family website and registered it last week, but I haven’t had the time to do anything with it. I also decided today that I’d love to have a “fatblog” or “fatlog” to help keep me motivated but I’m not sure how or where. I guess it’d be a second level domain of digsite but I certainly don’t want to have a second blog to maintain. One is enough. Well, there’s the photoblog but that’s just an after thought. I just updated it today, btw.
I know what I want it to be but wordpress just can’t do it. My only alternative would be to have a second install of wordpress, second database, copy all the plugins and theme over and make a link from the top to it like I have for the photoblog but that would mean I’d have to login to a second install to make posts. Oy! I dunno what this site is going to turn into if I do that tho. Some huge conglomeration of me. A mismatched summation of all my parts. LOL! My worry is that it will kill this blog not for me but for whoever visits it. If I go to a site and there is too much to read, I’d probably not read any of it.
I woke up today again too early and feeling lazy as hell. It’s no help that it hasn’t stopped raining. It’s amazing how much time it takes to get two kids up from bed, changed and fed. The little bit of time I had to sit on the couch with my laptop kept getting interrupted by either one of the kids or my own conscience telling me that I still have a lot to get done. I have one (1) load left. It’s in the dryer. I’ve started picking things up around the house but I still have so much more other stuff to do. Xmas cards, printing photos..
Jesus, it’s no wonder sahms become very bitter, uninteresting women if they’re not careful. Nothing to think about other than housework or diaper changing. I haven’t even had time to read the blogs I like. Not one. Every time I start that freakin voice in my head says “you gotta pick up those dishes and declutter the house!”. Dennis owes me when he gets back. I’m going to need me time. Alone time.
I finally decided on a domain name for a family website and registered it last week, but I haven’t had the time to do anything with it. I also decided today that I’d love to have a “fatblog” or “fatlog” to help keep me motivated but I’m not sure how or where. I guess it’d be a second level domain of digsite but I certainly don’t want to have a second blog to maintain. One is enough. Well, there’s the photoblog but that’s just an after thought. I just updated it today, btw.
I know what I want it to be but wordpress just can’t do it. My only alternative would be to have a second install of wordpress, second database, copy all the plugins and theme over and make a link from the top to it like I have for the photoblog but that would mean I’d have to login to a second install to make posts. Oy! I dunno what this site is going to turn into if I do that tho. Some huge conglomeration of me. A mismatched summation of all my parts. LOL! My worry is that it will kill this blog not for me but for whoever visits it. If I go to a site and there is too much to read, I’d probably not read any of it.
Now that I’ve got this blog as well as I can for the time being and that I decided to take photography a little more seriously, I decided to start a photoblog. The last 24 hours have been spent looking for the right photoblog opensource software. I use Menalto’s Gallery2 on my old site littledeath.net (gallery.littledeath.net) and it is a great great gallery but that site is going away soon and the gallery is moving to a new location. It’s for family, anyway, not so much this blog and displaying artistic photos like I think they should be. Gallery2 is not so good for a photoblog and posting photos so much as it’s great for creating albums so I decided to go with pixelpost.
Now the challenge is going to be finding a theme to start with and then modifying it to look like this blog so that I can make the trasition from one to the other and back look as seemless as possible. Too bad wordpress doesn’t have an easy way of integrating a photoblog the way I want it to be. That would have been easier with blogs like pivot or serendipity or even movable type. But I much prefer wordpress to those so I won’t go there.
I can’t wait to get it up but I’m not looking forward to spending the countless hours modifying the theme. I’m so anal when it comes to details that I can easily make a job like that stretch for weeks. But hopefully I’ll have it mostly done before my little online photography course begins. I’ll have to try hard to let details go and concentrate more on functionality.
Egads, what does it take to get ajax to work on this hunk o’ junk? On and off I’d say I’ve been trying to get one version or another of inline ajax expand for “more” or “comments” to workover the last 2 weeks. Now I finally found one that works for each task but somehow this bucket of rusty nails don’t like them both activated together.
But I don’t give up so easy.
Lotsa broken blog coming ahead…
Weird
Determined
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