28th July 2007

Wordpress, It’s a Love hate thing

posted in Blog, General, Web Tech, cloud, mistakes, problem, spellcheck |

Yup, that’s how I feel about it right now. I spent some time with my blog today for the first time in ages. I upgraded to the latest version, installed a few plug-ins. I also tried to sort out my sidebar issues again, I had hoped that the upgrade might fix it for me but alas no :(

So I’ve been investigating and it seems that there is something in certain posts that is causing the sidebars to vanish from the page. There are a few common threads with these posts…

  1. They were all written in Wordpress “rich text editor”
  2. They all contain images
  3. They were all saved as drafts and edited over an number of sittings

For now I’m just not going to use the Rich text editor, hopefully as I post more and the effected posts move off the front page the issue will become less prominent. I guess I’ll just have to live with it, until I work out whats causing it.

On the upside, the new plug-ins mean people can now digg my posts if they feel the need and I have some added colour thanks to the images feed. The new category cloud in the sidebar looks so much better than that horrible mess that I used to have and I finally have a functioning Spellchecker, I’m sure I’ll hear all about it if it’s not up to the task :)

It’s one of those things that bugs me about technology at times, it’s just not as simple as we’d like it to be. There’s a lot more going on with modern technology than most of us realise and it just doesn’t always do what we expect or want it to. That said It’s great to have the technology working for us… most of the time anyway. ;)

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  1. 1 On July 29th, 2007, ellybabes » No posts this week, again… said:

    […] to his sidebars, but has had some issues that he’s been unable to resolve, which mean that sometimes the sidebars appear and sometimes not. Hopefully as he posts some more, NOT using the Rich Text Editor, these will resolve […]

  2. 2 On July 29th, 2007, Grannymar said:

    “It’s one of those things that bugs me about technology at times, it’s just not as simple as we’d like it to be.”

    You said it, and you know about these things being in the business. How do you think I feel. Learning Chinese would be easier!

  3. 3 On July 29th, 2007, George said:

    Now Grannymar, Don’t sell yourself short, you are well above the technical level of most “users”. You podcast, blog, skype, IM, scan, edit and print photos and much much more. You, like me, can’t be expected to know how to fix thing’s when they go wrong.

    BTW I hate the word “user” it just seems wrong in that context, why is that?

  4. 4 On September 8th, 2007, jameswillisisthebest said:

    This is my first post
    just saying HI

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