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Site going down for repairs

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

This site will be up and down beginning at about 5 p.m. (Mountain Time) Sunday, February 4.

Not sure how long I’ll be working on it.

Still (after almost a month) have not figured out what coding is fouled and causing the “comments” to disappear and the function not to work any more when you try to leave a comment. Am going to try some radical rebuilding.

While doing that (live) the site will look very weird at times, will be broken at times, will not come up at all at times.

If I can’t get the comments function working properly within about another 30 hours of troubleshooting and reworking, I am going to scrap the current site design altogether and go with a simple, out-of-the-box WordPress theme, lightly customized.

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Stick with ‘plain vanilla’ Word Press

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

If you’re considering using WordPress for your site, stick with the simple, out of the box version.

Customize your header graphic so it looks nice. Customize your background colors.

Pick the options you want to display from the basic menu offered.

Don’t do a ton of extracurricular customizing…unless you are extremely wonky and will enjoy pretty much completely troubleshooting and reworking the coding in various files in your installation every few months. I speak from first-hand experience.

Here are reasons why it pays to stick with plain-jane vanilla: (more…)

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‘Comments’ function remains dysfunctional; troubleshooting will continue…

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Am temporarily stymied in my effort to troubleshoot the currently non-functioning “comments” feature on this site because the server my “unlimited account” resides on at HostNewWay.com reached 100% capacity late this evening and I’m unable to ftp files until the host clears some additional space. Waiting for the host to resolve this. Then will get back to trying to find and fix the source of this perplexing problem.

I was puzzled that no one had commented on any posts in recent months but it wasn’t until Barbra Sundquist notified me a few days back that the comments function wasn’t working on this site that I understood why.

— kwc

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