Wordpress downloads AWOL, Twitter Search Confirms
[ update: Wordpress downloads are working again ]
This is where Twitter comes in handy … proof that it’s not just me.
Wordpress downloads are not working right now - when you click on the download link, you simply get an empty page. I first thought it must be a problem on my end, but when I quickly tried Safari as well as Firefox, I was fairly sure there was a real problem.
Then, checking Twitter search confirmed it. Here are the 10 most recent tweets about downloading Wordpress:
That’s a live feed … and, thankfully, evidence that I am not finally leaving the twisted shreds of my sanity behind, or suddently growing stupid.
Wordpress 2.5x having troubling publishing posts?
Five times in the past 3-4 weeks I’ve written and published a post on this blog only to come back a day later and see it not actually published and live. What’s going on?
The question in my mind is: am I actually publishing the post or just hitting Save? As you can see … the two buttons are side-by-side in the Wordpress screen where you write posts.
Although I can’t be sure, I don’t think so. I never click Save, because WP auto-saves posts every few minutes. And I’m pretty sure I can’t have made that mistake so many times.
So I’m wondering if there’s a bug in Wordpress … and if anyone else has noticed it. I think there is, and I think I might even know where/when it is. I say where/when, because my guess is that the problem might be occuring when two things happen at the same time: Wordpress auto-saves a post, and simultaneously, I click Publish.
I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue. To help me find out, I’m now going to very deliberately click PUBLISH.
Scoble Shnoble: who’s who
Check out
http://scoblerizer.wordpress.com/ versus
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/.
That’s Just another little reminder from the universe that URIs were never designed for humans. And that identify theft is all-too-easy online.
It’s somewhat amusing … whoever started the scoble-like blog started blogging on April 13, 2006 with a classic “I’m blogging at last” post, and apparently ended that all-too-brief flirtation just two days later, on April 17.
Someone probably warned him/her that identify theft, even in the blogging world, is a bad idea.
Nashville redux
As you’ve undoubtedly noticed if you’ve been reading my blog lately, I’ve been in Nashville attending the NAESP conference. Great city, great conference, and this is a great opportunity to check out the new Wordpress gallery feature.
Some of my Nashville photos, after the link … click on any to see larger versions (and again to get a full-size version.) Oddly, the multi-file upload feature promised in Wordpress 2.5 did not work.
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Wordpress automatic upgrade absolutely rocks.
Upgrading Wordpress every time there’s a minor security update is a major pain the you-know-what … but Wordpress automatic upgrade takes all the pain out.
Here’s where to get it; here’s the site of the people that made it.
New day, new skin
Well, I went minimalist for a while but, since I am perennially unable to keep a Wordpress theme for longer than a month or so, I’ve up and switched.
This is Silhouette by Brian Gardner, and it’s actually still fairly minimalist … but a lot easier on the eyes.
The only problem I see so far is that this theme does not seem to display my tags … I’ll have to monkey around with the code a little to see what I need to do to make that happen.
I have to say, I really like this theme. Might even stick to it for a couple of months this time!
[ update ]
Categories deleted; tags inserted.
A mash-up of me: my online identity in one place
I’ve finally, finally, finally invested some time and energy in this, my new blog … and it feels good.
The idea is that Sparkplug 9 is the focus of my digital life. It’s the hub connecting all the spokes of my online interactions.
- Sites
So the latest sites I’ve found useful and interesting are in Links, courtesy of delicious. - Photos
Photos that I’ve considered good enough to upload to Flickr are in Photos. - Books
The recent inhabitants of my bookshelf, nicely organized and maintained thanks to Shelfari, are in Books. - News updates
Nonsense that reflects my momentary state of mind is in Ephemera, thanks to Twitter. - Videos
Videos and little screenshot movies I’ve uploaded to YouTube stream into Videos.
And they all - plus anything that doesn’t quite fit into any of the above categories - make up my online footprint.
Overall I’m pretty happy with how it all fits. It’s all very web 2.0 to be able to link bits and pieces from many different sites. Ideally, YouTube would have a better way to stream your videos onto your site … I’m not sure that having them all appear in one video player is the best option. But overall: not bad.
The beauty of it all is that it’s so easy with Wordpress, the blogging software I use. Most major web 2.0 companies supply Wordpress plugins to add their functionality to your site. And if they don’t some enterprising and generous plugin writer has, and is sharing the fruits of his labor.
Online identity is a complex thing … we worry about who owns it, we look for different ways to analyze it, we want to control it, and we worry about who will find it.
As for me, I’m just going to worry about creating it. Or, more accurately, living it. I’ll let the chips fall where they may … since the only worse than having a negative online identity is having no digital footprint at all.
Wordpress automatic upgrade
Just wanted to send a very happy shout-out to Techie Buzz, who make the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Very simply, it’s wonderful.
Upgrade Wordpress is, frankly, a pain in the you-know-what. There are updates frequently - usually for good cause, such as security. Sometimes they come as often as twice a month. Sometimes an update needs to be updated … several days after being released. This means doing a back-up, breaking out the FTP app, updating files, crossing fingers that you’re not over-writing anything you don’t want to be, and generally a half an hour of pure PITA.
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade, on the other hand, is as simple as clicking a few links and downloading a few files. In fact, I was finished in a matter of about 3 minutes - no nail-biting required.
Nice. Very nice.
Frankly, it’s something that Matt Wullenberg should consider putting into the standard Wordpress install. It would make the process of maintaining a Wordpress installation much, much easier.
Of course, that might have a negative effect on Wordpress.com …
Shout-out: delicious for Wordpress
I just installed delicious for Wordpress, a beautifully widget-ized plugin that displays your most recently saved links.
The least I can do it send Rick, the creator, a couple of visitors …
All 3 Wordpress blogs now imported!
Whoa.I now have all three of my former blogs (bizhack, art-n-artifice, and fishcrackers) imported into this uber-blog.The toughest one was bizhack, which had over 1400 posts and a 4.3 MB export file … 2.3 MBs over the Wordpress import limit.Wordpress import hackI had to use David Seah’s wordpress import hack to get it imported … which was interesting consider it was created for Wordpress 2.1 and the current version (which I’m using) is 2.3.If you’re doing this, be aware that you’ll need to search around a bit for the correct file locations.
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