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In Wordpress? Never use the automatic upgrader for plugins. It broke my whole installation today, and I spent two hours today putting it back together.
(Edit several hours later: Actually, the LiveJournal crossposter’s still broken. Additionally I hate everything, including you.)
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A WordPress plugin that works up to at least 2.5.1 that does threaded comments and email notifications, and seems to work fine so far. (The templates it includes are pretty bad, though - I had to put together my own.) If this had gone up a few days later, I’d suspect that the guy timed it to coincide with LiveJournal’s most recent episode of cleverness.
(I still haven’t found anything that mimics friends-lock functionality perfectly. It would probably have to combine OpenIDs and something like this.)
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WordPress doesn’t delete comments you mark as spam - they remain in the database to help train the spam catcher. If you accidentally mark a real comment as spam (or, perchance, a whole page of them), and you have access to phpMyAdmin, you can get it back pretty easily.
Standard disclaimers: This is for WordPress 2.5.1 - I don’t know if the database is organized in exactly this way in all previous versions, or whether they’re going to change it in later versions. Don’t do anything big with this without backing up your database, and don’t do it at all if the idea of messing around with MySQL by yourself scares you. I suspect there are plugins that’ll help you with comment recovery out there - go look for one if you’re worried you’ll mess something up. (But back up your database anyway. No, seriously. There’s a plugin for that.)
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I took someone else’s perfectly respectable-looking theme and covered it with pictures of Sechs. I think I’m now incapable of identifying my website as my own if it doesn’t have a grumpy Sechs picture on it. Oliver Sacks will write a case study on this phenomenon.
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Blogs about WordPress themes whose own themes are broken.
(If anyone knows a good fluid-width two-column theme with a really robust options page, preferably one that plays nice with OpenID comments, tell me. The latest update pretty much broke all my customization, and I’m too lazy to fix it.)
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And I didn’t even understand what it was this morning.
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Man, pirating software is hard work. I have like a whole new respect for message board assholes.
I made Mom play the first chapter of Phoenix Wright the other day. She yelled inscrutable legal stuff at it the whole time and refuses to touch it again.
I also totally broke the blog the other day trying to do a test-run of copying it to a new server. I’m all grumpy at WordPress now. What is this forwarding bullshit you do? This is massively inappropriate, and the solution is fucking non-intuitive and for some reason broke all my Unicode characters. I’m not upgrading to this fucking 2.5 of yours until it’s been out at least three months and I know I can recreate all this work I’ve done messing around with PHP and hacking these fucking plugins to make them fucking work like I fucking want. Fucking.
The Mexican restaurant in town always has Star Trek playing. It’s really depressing to me I can hear a random line of dialog from Voyager and go, “Hold it, that totally contradicts that stupid episode where the Doctor’s fucking registry got corrupted or whatever!” I need rewrite privileges for my brain. That is space I could be using for kanji.
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You’d think the people who localized Professor Layton would be paying attention to what the people who localized Phoenix Wright were doing. But I guess not. Evil women with mysterious doubles should clearly always be named Dahlia, and the double’s name should be that of a purple flower.
Anyway, this game is really cute, but I have to have scratch paper around when I’m playing it.
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For writing class today, we made posters describing where we’re from, because language school is sort of like pre-school, but with more emphasis on vocabulary relating to intoxication. A scene from today’s class:
*I am dubiously considering the way I wrote “marijuana,” because I think it might be wrong.*
Great Artist-san: What is the kanji for “kami”?
Dragon-san: What? “Kami” for paper?
Great Artist-san: No, no, “kami-sama” - “kami” for God. I have to write “Brazil: God’s Country!”
Me: What?! No! America is God’s country! Don’t you people have TVs?!
Fuzzy-san: Hungary is obviously God’s country.
Great Artist-san: Is Taiwan God’s country?
Dragon-san, disgustedly: No.
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I just upgraded WordPress in hopes that it will make comment notification start working. Thus far it seems to have broken my ability to preview in-progress posts and use the Open-ID thingie. Fuck you, WordPress.
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Testing LJXP WordPress plugin…
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