Neatly Sliced

Mere days after upgrading to WordPress 2.3.3, I’ve now upgraded to WordPress 2.5. Sean brought out that due to a security vulnerability, Technorati stopped indexing compromised blogs and strongly encouraged all 2.3.3 users to upgrade to 2.5. Say what!

The new 2.5 Dashboard is a lot slicker and web 2.0ish. Lots of Ajax and/or Javascript integration, which is nice. Things are moved around a bit which will get a bit of getting used to.

I’m totally psyched about the improvements to the editor area. I hated how it would mess with HTML code. I will hastily update the food blog, as this was one major reason why I never posted there; every post was a headache to format properly.

Maintenance Mode plug in broke on the update for me - I was logged in yet I kept getting the maintenance mode screen (which ought only to appear when not logged in). I had to delete the poor pansy. Perhaps a new rev is in store.

I have this slivers category which essentially mimes Kottke’s remaindered links. Often a title is moot, so I leave it blank, which left this design all wonky. I altered the template by hard coding some UGly if in_category() checks in the template pages. Ultimately, down the road, I’d like to write a plug-in that will handle this through the CMS.

In any vein, I’m no designer, so I made it look halfway decentish without having to put much forethought into the rigamarole. I may care more if I had an actual design that I built the front end for, but this is a rip off WP template. So, again, any savvy designers who would like a web design on their resumé, submit a pdf, png, of jpg to me through the email on my about page. If you can’t figure out my email from there, then it’s the survival of the smartest in the web world, my friends, and you will soon perish. The rest of you, good job for reading.

The ultimate point, slivers are restyled on single and home pages (category page is still a headache because I am short on patience with this design that I don’t even love). You will all now rejoice.

PS: Gripe of the moment? I would also like to figure out how to use this “more” tag and not chop off the RSS feed.

According to this discussion forum, a site with the following error message has a cache issue:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in c:\your-site-path\wp-includes\cache.php on line 344

To resolve the issue, disable caching in wp-config.php. Add the following line: define('DISABLE_CACHE', true);