Posts Tagged ‘ShareThis’

Changes To d3bruts1d.com

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Yesterday I rolled out an updated theme (created by me) to the site. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the theme, though it took me a bit longer than I had hoped to finish. Strike that, because technically it’s not finished, there are still a couple minor things that I need to clean up…. like adding some kind of “logo”.

There has been far more customization in this theme than the previous d3theme. Before I had based my theme loosely on others in the Wordpress community, but this time I redid everything from scratch. Because this theme is intended solely for me, I’ve hard coded some things into the theme which should mean less database queries, which in turn should mean things run faster. We’ll see how it goes for a few days, I may need to tweak some things later.

I am still relying on a number of plug ins to do some stuff. Let’s face it, plug ins make life easier. ;) Among the plug ins I use are… (more…)

Site Updated

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Last night I updated d3bruts1d.com to Wordpress v2.6. I’d like to say the update went smothley, and maybe it did but I had a slight scare.

Upon updating to the latest version, I tried to log into the admin section. I was told the database needed to update, so I went ahead with that (usually I’d do a backup first). After the update I returned to the admin section, only to continually received messages telling be to login again. Unable to log in, I decided to reset the password for my account. New password still wouldn’t work.

Needless to say, panic started setteling in. I quickly googled “wordpress cannot login 2.6” and ended up here. The solution was quite simple, and frankly one I should have tried before resetting my password, delete your cookies. Doh! That’s what I get for running my update late.

In addition to the Wordpress update, I also updated ShareThis. Previously you had something like 15 options to select from. Now you’ve got 33. So if you like something I post, feel free to hit the ShareThis link under each post and submit it to your favorite site, email it, or link back to me. :)