Posts Tagged ‘WordPress’
Houston, we have a problem
… February and by the time I realised what had happened the transfer of domain had completed and WordPress is really hard to deal with when the URL isn’t working (no way to log into admin).
So I downloaded the database and it is really big, impractically big to deal with and so it is going to take me a while to upload all the old posts, that’s if I’m able to without wrecking this install.
I know that there is a lot of history in there and I’d be really upset if I lost it, but …
Tags: Blog Quit Your Day Job Starship Troopers WordPress
Hi everyone, it would appear that my comments system Disqus has gotten a little trigger happy with some of your comments and I want to apologise to everyone who has had their comments disappear.
It was especially a problem when posting links to other items and some of you guys who have been commenting for years were automatically classed as spam and I feel more than awful about that as I missed a bunch of really positive and thoughtful comments.
To be honest I doubt I’ll be able to go back and find all of them that I haven’t read, I certainly doubt I’ll be able to now answer them all but I am disengaging the disqus comment system from the site. Fortunately it synchronises the comments and pretty much all the one’s that went missing are in my WordPress database still.
A couple of problems though:
- the threading does not show up and so all comments that already appear no longer fall indented under the intended comment – I have no idea how to fix this – it makes me really pissed off just thinking about it.
- all the spam and seo crap keyword comments are going to be back and frankly I’m possibly more annoyed by this and will spend some time going through and removing them.
- the reply button works but seems to drop you back to the bottom of the page (I’ll work this one out)
A couple of cool things though:
- the flying monkeys are back (if you don’t know what I’m talking about leave a comment with a valid email and you’ll soon see)
- commentluv is active again
So the grand experiment is over. I really liked the service and I think that I would still recommend it but it’s not for me as I get really picky about these types of problems. It should be said that it could be my fault somehow too but then that is probably a good reason to drop it as well.
Just a quick side note too, you may have noticed some advertising showing up on the site and a great way of supporting the site is by clicking on some of them and seeing where they lead, so please don’t be shy!
So last night I was talking with Dan Hughes of Midnight Movie Club fame about just general stuff (I think he was bad mouthing you all and I was defending you guys). Anyway we do this via Skype because a video will show up at the bottom of the screen so I can watch myself which is pretty much my favourite topic ever. Anyway every once and a while something would show up on the screen distracting me (no not Dan’s head, though admittedly it is distracting).
Take a good look at this screen shot and tell me what you think is wrong:
What is wrong in this screen shot!!? Click on the image to make it biggerer.
Okay enough of that silliness the actual thing that I’m looking at is this:
Some weird icon that showed up on my Skype page and freaked me out
It showed up and disappeared several times during the conversation. I have a theory but it involves aliens disguised as cats trying to download my brain through the computer and I’m not about to make that theory public…
