Meta, round 2
Posted by Ace on May 5th, 2009 filed in letters from AceGravatar images for commenting are in place.  Upgraded the site to WordPress 2.7.1, to no avail, as this theme was designed for WordPress 2.0, when there was nary a shadow of such things; had to go in and tweak the .php code by hand. Thanks to Yoko, who rode shotgun via Skype to help me with the manual install and provided useful suggestions for going about the tweaking.
I gotta confess, my approach to this is still pretty much alchemy as opposed to science. I barely have a grasp of .html coding, much less .php.  How’s it look?
May 6th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Looks fine to me.
That was actually kind of fun, going through the upgrade. I have a career in IT! Oh wait, that is partly my job. :P
Have you thought about finding an updated theme? Just asking. I know you’re partial to this one.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
What??? And sacrifice all this delicious darkness? Besides, I’m just now starting to understand this one.
Now here’s an additional interesting quirk: the new Dashboard is telling me I have 4 plug-ins active. But I only have 3. That seems problematic…
May 7th, 2009 at 9:56 am
SW&SR’s dashboard says the same thing: four active, when only three are turned on. Maybe the fourth is the Gravatar enabler within WordPress itself.
I suppose the easy way to check that would be to turn it off temporarily. (Here, not there.)
May 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am
No- that 4 means that there are 4 plugins that are inactive, waiting for you to activate them. If you activate them, the 4 will go away.
Except that there are actually 5 plugins inactive. Weird.
Even weirder– I did you a favor and *deleted* Hello Dolly in SW & SR, but there are still 5 inactive plugins. huh? Maybe a couple of the plugins counts as one? I dunno.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Three active plug-ins for the spiritual; four inactive plug-ins for the material. See? Alchemy.
Maybe the dashboard can only count plug-ins that were installed using it, not ones you installed via ftp.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Iron to gold.
So, should we activate those inactive plugins on SW & SR or what?
May 7th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I dunno. None of them seem particularly important, unless you’re really hot to disable all those update notices.
That one that we have installed called wp-cache, that’s not even turned on. You have to enable it after you activate it, in its own menu.
May 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
This looks good to me. Normally I usually can’t stand a black background with light text–it just hurts my eyes–but for some odd reason it doesn’t bother me here. Maybe the choice of font? In fact, this comment box is really hip in a 1986 BBS looking way.
Hacking PHP? Impressive. I’m OK with HTML and CSS, but not PHP.