{"id":32990,"date":"2013-04-02T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=32990"},"modified":"2013-04-02T21:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T03:56:58","slug":"wherein-the-blog-owner-indulges-himself-in-a-bit-of-moaning-and-bitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/wherein-the-blog-owner-indulges-himself-in-a-bit-of-moaning-and-bitching.html","title":{"rendered":"Wherein the blog owner indulges himself in a bit of moaning and bitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Punching<\/a>Actually, life is going fine, thank you. But my blog is having little niggling technical issues like unto driving me mad, MAD, IT TELL YOU!<\/p>\n

Trying to fix those problems let me to upgrade WordPress to 3.5.1, and later my theme, Thesis, to 1.8.5. Both of which broke more things.<\/p>\n

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  1. Twitter Tools has not produced daily (or, by test, weekly) archives since early February. After some weeks of kicking at it, I changed over to simply mirroring tweets here. Which looks ugly, but I was able to make them stand out (or not look quite as much like blog posts) through CSS tweaks. \u00a0Which got lost when I upgraded Thesis, for some reason, so I have to restore (or recreate) that CSS code, which is always a joy<\/a>. \u00a0(There are, unfortunately, no other WP plugins that will perform this one’s functions — not even as an approximation, now that Twitter is pulling the plug on RSS.)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Google+Blog, the plug-in that pulls my Plus posts over to this blog, had problems after a recent upgrade to that (which is what led me to do the WP upgrade). \u00a0I finally worked that out, but it was aggravating while it happened (since it is such a keen tool).<\/li>\n
  3. Somewhere in the upgrades, the blog footer got borked up. \u00a0Going to next pages (or pages by number, per that plugin, which I’ve tried disabling and reenabling to no avail) is all messed up. [UPDATE: PARTIALLY FIXED]<\/li>\n
  4. My GoodReads display in the sidebar, showing books I’ve read recently, has also decided to get all screwy on me. \u00a0Rrg. [UPDATE: FIXED]<\/li>\n
  5. I’m told (and have confirmed through experimentation with another theme) that the avatars showing for people with comments coming over from Google+ should be showing up in the comments on this blog, rather than the default “monster” Gravatars. \u00a0They are not. Apparently another thing that Thesis is doing in a flexible, brilliant, non-standard way that I have to investigate and fix.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m pondering moving to another theme, though I really like Thesis and its easy flexibility (despite it becoming more and more complex over time) and doing so would break a whole bunch of other stuff.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, none of this is earthshattering or tragic or anything other than a #firstworldproblem kind of a thing (and a #firstworldgeekproblem at that). \u00a0But it’s still aggravating and distracting, neither of which I particularly need right this moment.<\/p>\n

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    Actually, life is going fine, thank you. But my blog is having little niggling technical issues like unto driving me mad, MAD, IT TELL YOU! Trying to fix those problems let me to upgrade WordPress to 3.5.1, and later my theme, Thesis, to 1.8.5. Both of which broke more things. 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