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Free WordPress Premium Theme For Your Blog

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

In celebration of this blog’s three months of existence, I have decided to change the theme of my blog to a Premium Theme (those ones with eye candies). A custom made WordPress Premium Theme sets a blog apart and distinguish it from the millions of blogs available online. The distinction enhances the uniqueness of the blog. I have been using a free WordPress Theme even though I modified the header. I sure want something better.

So, I went round searching for a Premium Theme and I saw quite a good number of lovely ones at PremiumThemes. The beautiful news is that my visit coincided with a contest currently running on the site. They are offering contestants the opportunity to pick any of their high quality WordPress Premium Themes. See the announcement below. (more…)

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Fix Flashing Save And Publish Button In WordPress 2.5.1

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Since I upgraded my blog from WordPress 2.5 to WordPress 2.5.1, life has not really been the same. Even though I reported the upgrade as been sucessful I discovered much later that something was really wrong.

The SAVE and PUBLISH buttons on the admin dashboard flashes whenver I try to write a post (there were other issues, but that was easily identifiable). After going through posts by others that have similar issues in the WordPress forum, I was more perplexed than helped. As at one hour ago before posting this, I was still confused on what the solution could be.

Finally, some few minutes ago, I came accross a post that I read before but did not understand. The 20th post gave a clue which was all the solution I need. The poster, Sam_a stated that anyone experiencing the problem should check to ensure that he actually uploaded the new wp-settings.php file that was included in the WordPress 2.5.1 folder.

When I checked, I discovered that I was having the old wp-settings.php file from WordPress 2.5 So, I renamed that file and then uploaded the new file from WordPress 2.5.1 folder that I have on my desktop. After doing that, I have not experienced the blinking SAVE and PUBLISH button again. For now the admin dashboard is more stable than it was before and hopefully, there will not be any other issue.

If you had similar issue, I suggest you try this solution. I am still at a loss why I could not do an automatic upgrade, if you have a clue, please drop a note in the comment section. Thanks.

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WordPress 2.5.1 – Something is Wrong!

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

I am almost regretting that I upgraded from WordPress 2.5 to WordPress 2.5.1. Maybe I should have waited for the 2.5.2.

Initially, after the upgrade, everything seems to be working fine. But that is no longer the case. I am finding it difficult to publish my post. The save and publish buttons keeps flashing irrationally. Also, it gives message that it is saving drafts every 30seconds or thereabout! This is most depressing!

Moderating comments have become a herculean task as I struggle to do simple tasks from the administrative dashboard. I have not seen any benefit so far for this upgrage (maybe there are technically, I do not know). However, I just want my blog functioning normal. I do not want to be bogged down with technical issues. It is not the right time to learn scripts and what makes them to give error messages 🙁

Please, if you had read my previous mail encouraging you to update, reconsider. I am no longer sure that was a good idea. So many confused people are having similar problems http://wordpress.org/support/topic/171830 and posting questions at the support forum. The ironical thing is that some are not experiencing these issues, so it makes those of us having such problem look like we did something wrong that is why we are having problems 🙁

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How I Upgraded To WordPress 2.5.1 Manually!

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Praise God! I successfully upgraded at last. This morning, I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.5.1 since I was advised by friends that it was necessary for security reason (that got me scared enough to change my prior decision. I do not want my blog hacked!).

Unfortunately, unlike my prior experience when upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to 2.5, the Automatic Upgrade Plug-in got stuck midway during the upgrading process ( I tried several time but got the same result). It gave the following error

“Could Not Initiate Maintenance Mode”

and then politely gave the following message

“Some problems did not allow us to upgrade your blog. You can email me the logs so that I can help debug your problem……”

That was it. I panicked and started Googling up and down to find possible solution to the error. Well, nothing positive turned up (it could be that I was entering wrong information into Google anyway, I was too tensed up). After wasting about 1hour 30minutes, I told myself it is time to try the manual upgrading that I have been dodging from. So I went back to wordpress.org and also read some posts by other bloggers on how to upgrade manually.

Eventually, I followed the following steps to upgrade manually.

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WordPress 2.5.1 Released! WordPress 2.5.2 Almost Ready!

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

I noticed the announcement of the release of WordPress 2.5.1 in my admin dashboard late in the evening yesterday. I was still contemplating if I should go ahead and upgrade or wait for a little while before upgrading when I stumbled upon a post at xfep, you can read the post here.

My last upgrade from WordPress 2.3 was dramatic enough, read the post Upgrade Your WordPress Site Automatically . I am not willing to do two upgrade in quick succession. I am thinking of waiting for the WordPress 2.5.2 before upgrading. However, I am open to suggestion and technical advice. If you have any, do not hesitate to drop a comment. Thanks in advance. Cheers. 😉

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