Ed Smiley's Blog

Well, I was getting ready to move over to a Google Blogger blog and dump WordPress. �I changed the cname of edsmiley.com to point to google and I was all set. �However, for some reason it never updated. �So when I typed edsmiley.com, it ended up back to my busted WordPress site. �

So, I did a little investigating. �When I logged into my site via ssh, I noticed that the ssh key changed. �So I wondered if there was some sort of hosting issues. �I wrote my webhost, AxisHost, and found this out.

�…However, the new servers are running PHP5 and mySQL5 at this time. If, after the migration, you find that you need us to adjust the server settings – please don’t hesitate to contact us…

So I contacted them and they reimported my database and boom, we are back in business! So I decided since I have all my posts back, I might as well remain with WordPress.

The only problem I had is that my theme, K2 1.0-RC6, did not seem to be compatible with the wonderful TrueBlue style. My sidebar displayed in the sidebar, but at the bottom of the page. So I found on the google code site an SVN version of TrueBlue and it now looks even better.

More posts to come now that I am back!

Well, bit the bullet and updated to WordPress 2.5. I feel WordPress is something you want to keep very updated as it seems to be prone to being hacked. Well, ran into a few problems, but looks like a lot of other people did too. I guess none of these problems were really related to WordPress, but the K2 theme.

When I did the database update and loaded the site, everything was fine. However, when I logged into the dashboard, I was presented with:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_register_sidebar_widget()…

I was able to fix this by taking the advice from Brad at Chaotictech, I was able to get into the Dashboard. However, I was faced with another issue. None of the sidebar widgets were working. So I downloaded the newest version (RC5) of the K2 theme and now everything else seems to be back to normal.

The dashboard interface is quite different and will probably take a bit to get used to. I am using the visual editor to see how that works. If it still sucks like it used to, then back to Ecto for me.