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Day: January 24, 2007

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WordPress 2.1 upgrade and issues

In short order the upgrade to WordPress 2.1 was a tad more complicated than expected.

I followed the instructions for upgrading exactly. My upgrades tend to fail on the last step – running the upgrade.php. The called for database updates fail completely.

The blog was back and operational, but there were errors. I printed out the errors generated from upgrade.php and did the updates to the database manually using phpMyAdmin. It was a little slow going, but I have enough of a background so that the SQL statements were not insurmountable. Of course I had to dabble while I was in there, and I took the opportunity to delete tables leftover from old plugins.

Everything else appeared to work fine, but my blogroll (links) were a mess. Most did not get labeled (categorized) so I had to do that manually. Once that was done the blogroll was duplicated, with all the links in their respective categories AND in the whichever category was listed first, effectively doubling the links. I tried all sorts of strategies, read the codex, and a bunch of posted help topics. All I could find was info on the php coding changes necessary to display links. Since I use widgets I looked through the links code in the widgets plugin. The code looked fine (hey, what do I know anyway…). I tried toggling various other plugins to no avail.

I got the idea that it was the way the theme (I’ve been using WP-Andreas01 1.3) was handling the links. I really didn’t want to change themes, mostly because of the work I have to do to reset widget order and the back-end coding I’ll have to do to fix my database pages, but I figured I’d invested about 4 hours already so I went ahead.

I had a nice Web 2.0 style theme, Subtle by Glued Ideas. I selected it and everything looked peachy.

In retrospect it was a great experience. I think the blog looks far better under the new theme, less choppy.

Christian Witness, Perspective, Political

Raise your voices, cry onto the Lord

Roe v. Wade – the march of death goes on. So raise your voices today and every day.

Lord have mercy on us and on our nation for we have sinned grievously.

It’s not just abortion, but our wanton rush toward death as an answer for every problem. War, put ’em out of their misery (especially those without a voice such as handicapped children and the mentally retarded), euthanasia, the death penalty, war again. It is the Pandora’s box of death.

Beseeching the Lord to save oneself or those one loves was not enough. Now we must pray, O man, kill me and my kin. Lead me into the grave and shut the door – there is no more.

So we pray, march, and witness. O Lord, save us and have mercy.

There’s some great stuff out in the blogsphere on this. Fr. Jim Tucker covers it well in Abortion and Freedom.

Perspective, Political

I hope someone asks

The networks were chasing after Hillary Clinton for her response to the State of the Union. As she runs for President I hope someone gets the nerve to ask, during one of these interviews:

When you, your husband, and your staff were pillaging and vandalizing the White House, just before you left Washington, did you ever say to yourself: Hey, it’s not my property, and you know, I might want to move back in someday?

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