01 September 2008 12:48 am
I didn’t know that the upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.1 was optional. After all the files have been uploaded, my custom K2 style broke completely. It took a few weeks to hack a simple design like this into a Wordpress template, because I hadn’t had the time to work on this for any significant length of time.
Though it’s live, this design is by no means complete. Comments still need to be remapped and there are many, many other minor tweaks to be made. But at least it is functional so I can spend my time doing more important things on the Internet—like blogging.
tags: blogging, internet, k2, wordpress
Blogging here has slowed to a near halt for two reasons: (1) the end-of-the-semester crunch, and (2) spring. Other than the daily poems, I am hardly blogging at all. Writing, however, is another topic entirely. During these last few weeks, I have been writing numerous lab reports and essays (not to mention all that writing on exams). Right now, in fact, I am writing a lab report that is due Monday at 5pm. (Don’t tell Cheryl.) Academia has consumed my life once again. I’ll return to the land of the Internet in early May.
Also, spring has overtaken my senses. The snow is finally gone, and the sun has finally come to stay. Now instead of holing up because of exhaustion and lack of sunlight, I hide because I fear exposure to other people. But more on that later. Now I have to go back to writing about the synthesis of aspirin.
tags: anxiety, blogging, colby-sawyer college, depression, internal links, lab reports, real life, seasonal affective disorder, updates
I just enabled Gravatars in the current Wordpress theme. A gravatar is a globally recognised avatar. Very useful! Now I don’t have to upload the same avatar to different sites (or, at least, to the ones that are gravatar-enabled).
How to use gravatars? Just go to gravatar.com, enter your e-mail, and set up your avatars. Now your avatar will be displayed on gravatar-enabled sites where you use that e-mail address. It’s that easy.
Thank you, Internet, for making life easy.
tags: admin, geekery, internet
Wordpress 2.5 came out last week, and unexpectedly broke the custom k2 layout that I had made. Unfortunately, the upgrade also created problems with the backend, but after some tinkering, I discovered the problem to be the Admin Drop Down Menus plugin (version 2.2.1). I’ll be installing the upgrade this afternoon.
Just goes to show that you should check your plugins or extensions after you upgrade a program!
In the meantime, I chose this lovely minimal text-only (and Wordpress 2.5-compatible) theme called blog.txt. This and the other text-only themes by Scott Tavares are very clean and easy to customize. If you like minimal designs, you would probably like his work.
tags: admin, backend fun, plugins, themes, updates, wordpress
