Category — Miscellaneous

If you have funky sexy halloween costumes or stories, place a link to your blog through the comments or send me an email with a picture and I’ll be happy to feature your costume in the gallery!

Have a good one! 

Here are a few peaceful images of my upcoming surroundings!

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I know, it’ll be rough .

Many users have made the move to WordPress in the last year.  I’m no expert, but if you follow some basic rules, there shouldn’t be anything you cannot overcome. 

I haven’t upgraded this blog yet but I did upgrade my DH Original which has let’s say, a little more personal family oriented content! 

The blog loaded and navigated successfully, but when I tried to access the Admin Panel/Login – It gave me:  

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_get_current_user() in /…Domain…Blah .Blah/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 446.

Hope the following tips and findings can save the headaches for some of you.

Lesson #1  Make sure you always make a back up before you upgrade.  Full back up includes:   Directory structure on the server and database.

Lesson #2  Disable plugins, as instructed by WordPress before the upgrade.

Luckily, I was able to dig up a solution…

The problem arises, if you are using certain King Plugins.  You can get more info on this at WordPress.org.  The new WP 2.2 has built in widgets, which conflicts due to the old directory structure.

Here is the Solution if you are after the fact.  You don’t have to re-invent the wheel:

I found the problem.

If you’re using a plugin or widget that must be installed in the folder of the old widget plugin, that plugin will break everything.

Now that WP 2.2 has widgets built-in there’s no need for the old widgets plugin. However, a few plugins/widgets are built to be installed in the same directory as the "widgets.php" file. Now that that file has been moved out of the plugins folder, problems arise.

Your problem plugins may differ, but I broke my blog with the King Text and King Links plugins/widgets. They must reside in the old widgets folder in the plugins folder. Now that widgets are incorporated in WP 2.2 and no longer a plugin, those two break and will take your blog down with them.

Fix: Copy your old widgets folder to your local hard drive as backup. Delete the widgets folder from your blog’s server. (If you haven’y upgraded your database, do so.) Reload your dashboard. Now you should be fine.

Sadly, the King widgets series (which powers my entire sidebar) needs an update to work with 2.2 from what I can see. No updates exist at the time of this writing.

Edelen  has other solutions in store if you care to read up on them.

As for my pending upgrade, I guess I’ll have to tweak my other blog until I’m satisfied with the results.  Then, I’ll upgrade.

Good luck to you.

Oh I’ve been around, just busy with DS activities. If you’re familiar, with the original DH Blog, you can catch up there.

Now it’s March break, so no shool for the week. 

B in this case, doesn’t stand for boobs, beautiful, blowjob, bliss, bare, balls, baby or bitch.

 B in this post is for backup, which can be a bitch or a bugger if you don’t do it regularly and you have an unfortunate event.  Even if you haven’t suffered an unfortunate event, and you want to change webhost or blogging platform.  You’ll need a backup to get you through.

I’ve discussed this before, but I think it’s a good idea to bring it up again.  Which ever your blogging platform, make sure you are familiar with the suggested backup routine.  Engage it, try it.  Not just the backup routine, the restore portion also.  

How?  Create a test site, perhaps parallel to yours.  Do some formatting, drop in some jibberish posts or data.  Backup, wipe it out, and see what’s involved in restoring it.  You’ll be happy if disaster strikes.  It’ll never happen to me  really doesn’t apply here.

Here are resources to some of  the different applications out there.  for the ones I missed, don’t be affraid to post it in a comment below.  This post is meant to be helpful and educate everyone.  I’m also open to corrections and suggestions.

Blogger   It doesn’t do it for you, but it tells you how to go about it!

Typepad  Please investigate further.  There’s more than one way to get to rome here!

WordPress.com  You should probably read this anyway!  See the Export feature.

WordPress on your own Server.  Read this:  Yes there are Plugins available, but one of these easiest methods, if you have upgraded to 2.1 is to go the Manage tab of the Dashboard, choose Export.  This format is calledl WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR.  It will contain your posts, comments, custom fields, and categories.

You need a little more here.  Your plugins, your themes, your pictures…With your FTP program,  download the directory structure to your computer.  Save it in a directory.  You may not be able to re-upload everything as is, but at least you’ll know what steps to take to put it back.  Your theme edits, and your css file should just right in after you’ve reinstalled your theme.

Restore  WordPress on a new server or the same.  2 steps:  Install a fresh copy of WordPress on the server, use the Manage/Import feature.  It will restore the file you had exported as your back up.  Yes, you still have to re-do the formatting, but you’ve saved your data.  Second step, now install your theme, restore the mods to your theme and re-do the plugins.

In the mean time I hope Nina from Lazy Geisha, gets back up on her feet and I hope this article, will inpire all of you to consider Plan B.