When I say finally – I don’t mean anything other than we finally took time to risk the upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. And, when I say “we” – I mean my better half Linda did all the research, talking with our server technicians, backing up of files, and doing the upgrade process – a full day of work, when she could have been doing many other things. And, Zelda Ravenel, our HTML wizard found and implanted the right code to make our type a little bigger (which shrank during the upgrade) and fixed the text to not be force-justified.
The average viewer may not notice the big changes, but believe me – some of these changes have solved problems we have been dealing with since we started – almost two years ago.
First, under the old system, if you clicked on one of the Categories to the right – it would only show you the last 10 entries. Very frustrating if you wanted to see something old in that category which had 20 or more entries. And, when you got to the bottom of our page after ten entries, you could not go back to look at older entries. So, if you wanted to see some older entries you couldn’t get to them – even if you knew what month they were posted – if that time period had more than 10 entries – forgetaboutit! Very frustrating for me and I’m sure our viewers.
Another problem we had to deal with was the fact that for a period of time – before I started checking each entry very carefully – entries were being assigned to not only the selected category, but to other random categories – filling some categories up with unrelated entries – further blocking you from seeing old entries on one subject.
Sometimes I had to do intensive Google searches to find old entries from last year. Until a few days ago, there were a few I could never find. Oh my!
Some glitch obviously happened when we first set up the blog and there seemed to be nothing we could do about it – at least no one we knew who had knowledge of WordPress knew how to fix it but by upgrading to the new version, but…. some people warned us about some bloggers loosing all their back entries during the upgrade process. So we dealt with things as best we could until “we” dared venture into that dreaded upgrade. And now, WordPress has fixed their upgrades so it is much easier and everything will be automatically transferred from the archives.
There may still be a few things out there that need fixing and it will take some time learning some of the new tricks the upgrade can do, but we’ll be working on that – when we can.
I’m a content guy – not a technician. So when I get a bright idea or see something on another blog I want to do – I have to take that problem to someone else and beg and beg until someone else can figure it out for me – them show me how to do it. Which can take some time. Sometime I don’t have time to do the things I want. But, we do the best we can.
Look – we’re still not on Facebook or Tweeting and may never be there and by the time we are – there will be something else. There is always something new these days.
