Tag: blog upgrades

If it wasn’t broke why did you fix it?

Posted by Eric – May 29, 2010

In the course of Life the Sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. Flowers bloom in Spring and they die in the Autumn. So it must be also for WordPress themes…

ummm, yeah we don’t need anymore of that. My previous theme has been in use for over a year. At that time, a commenter promised that maintainership was being transferred so that new releases would continue in the future. A year later there are still no signs of life to be found. I then started to seriously look at new themes for the church website and the BrakeBlog.

Blog.txt theme

Blog.txt rendered to be unmaintained.

When I started browsing the directory on wordpress.org for ideas I had two goals in mind.

  1. The church website and BrakeBlog would be dramatically different from each other after I make these changes. To be clear that the BrakeBlog and the church website are not the same.
  2. I wanted at least one theme to have a customizable image in the header.

The new theme for the church is very different from Blog.txt. Zenlite is a single column blog with no sidebar. The header is easily changeable to keep the website looking fresh. Several of the items that were in the sidebar had to be moved, unfortunately.

On this site, Simplish is very close in style to blog.txt. So close that it was a drop-in replacement. I may consider changing the fonts to those used by blog.txt. I like the look of Sans Serif-based fonts over Serif fonts.

WP 2.7 Changes

Posted by Eric – February 11, 2009

WordPress v2.7 was released several weeks ago and I waited for compatibility news about Barthelme, my blog theme. That was until I read this post by the theme author.  The author is giving up maintainership and he wants to pass it on to someone else. So… we’ll find out what happens with that in the future.

In addition, I am able to eliminate one plug-in from my wordpress install. WordPress 2.7 now allows you to expire comments on old posts. Which makes comment timeout less necessary, even though the plug-in has more functionality than what is built-in to WordPress.

v2.3 installed

Posted by Eric – February 25, 2008

I got WordPress v2.3 installed with no serious issues, yet. Upgraded Barthelme to one that supports WP v2.3 and my Comment Timeout plug-in still seems to work.

resolv=open("/etc/resolv.conf","r")
for line in resolv.readlines():
#The first test checks if the line has already been "skipped". The second test
#checks for servers which do not have a private address. Finally, the else
#condition will commment out any uncommented private servers.
	if sre.search('Skip', line):
		tmp=tmp+line
	elif not sre.search('192.168.1*', line):
		tmp=tmp+line
	else:
		tmp=tmp+"#Skipped! Bad router! #"+line
resolv.close()

…and my Preserve Code Formatting plug-in still works. Yay! for me. :) This little treadmill exercise is almost over.