Category: {wordpress}

WordPress

Changes

Having finally lost patience with the K2 theme I’m now searching for a better solution so things will be in a state of flux here for a while. Much as I like K2, the developers seem incapable of producing a stable version despite the number of people working on it. The older version I was using screwed up the header uploads while the latest upgrade made a mess of the live search. Trying to deal with their problems as well as the occasional conflicts caused by upgrading WordPress itself is more trouble than I need.

Update: Okay, it looks like I’m going with Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan. I’d toyed with the idea of using a 3-column layout before and I like the presentation of this one. The trouble with WordPress themes is that the minimal ones tend to be far too minimal while the not-so-minimal ones are often highly-coloured and unsuited to the purpose of sitting alongside the rest of my site. So for now this seems a decent solution although it’ll require some additional hacking to bring back some of the features I was using before. Your patience is requested.

Comments glitch

I’m holding off posting anything substantial until a fault is addressed by my webhost. The comments database appears to have become corrupted so for now there are no comments showing at the end of each post despite the comments numbers after the categories list. I have everything backed up, however, so nothing should be lost; watch this space.

Update: Everything back to normal.

London Pride

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One of the exotic creatures at today’s London Pride march. More pictures at this Flickr pool. Marchers braved wet weather and renewed terrorist threats after two unexploded car bombs were found on Friday. (And where that matter is concerned, The Register has a rebuke to the inevitable hysterics.)

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On a related note, this site has a feature that allows you to see how your blog (or page) would be rated by the MPAA. As Queerty notes, overuse of the word “gay” pushes up the supposed offensiveness quotient, something which results in this page receiving an NC-17 rating when it scans the past month of postings. Yes, it’s only a bit of web silliness but when the real Motion Picture Ass. of America has been shown to treat gay themes or stories with greater restriction than straight ones then it’s probably more accurate than its creators suspect.

Update: also in The Register, an ex-armed forces bomb-disposal operator explains why the London “terror clowns” shouldn’t be dignified with the hysteria they’ve been receiving.