Ok, the flickr feed is fixed. Not sure what the problem was, but I think I noticed something similar last time I updated Wordpress itself.
I purged the cached images and did the one click automagic update on the flickrss plugin and was back in business.
My Dreamhost overlords moved me to another server box and some how that broke the flickr feed site right. I’ll get things cleared up soon. Please stay tuned.
After seeing a scary Wordpress update warning on mashable.com, I was guilted into doing a little maintenance work on the old blog. I was half way through the normal Wordpress update procedure that I know and don’t really look forward to… backup the database, back up the site’s files, download the new release, unzip and copy over the existing site.
I was already through the back up stuff and about to download the latest source when I read in the upgrade instructions and saw the Automatic Upgrade option. I saw the link upgrade link in the admin interface previously and thought it was just a link to the download page for the latest release. Not any more! Its actually an update function.
Since I already had everything backed up and I clicked and confirmed that I wanted the auto install option. After a minute or two I got some status messages on the updater’s progress and final message that the update was successful. Wow, that was pretty painless.
Well, at first blush. Oops, I should really rename my custom theme directory, my bad. The upgrade was happy to replace my custom stuff with the default. No worries, easily copied over from the back up. Hmm, seems to have lost some of the widgets in my sidebar. Easily restored with the widget manager. Guess I’ll have to give the site a good going over look for other little things. Oh well.
I really gotta get around to doing some redesign work anyway…
Expected that last post to put in a Tweet. Turns out I didn’t have the auto create tweet from post option turned on. Option toggled and hopeful it’ll work this time.
A little tech task I’ve been meaning to get to forever was adding my Tweets to the sidebar. I was gonna cook up something myself, but stumbled across Twitter Tools. It was a simple unzip, copy, activate, set some options type of affair. As a bonus, it also files a tweet when I publish here; something I’m always forgetting to do.
Well, its nice to cross one thing off the list. About a zillion more to go.
