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Why Does WordPress Always Break Things That Work When Updating?

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Why is it that EVERY time that there is an upgraded version of WordPress they SCREW THINGS UP?

On one of the previous upgrades they took away my Post Preview and now it takes extra clicks to look at a post while in draft mode. Unless you do what I did (which you have to fix with every new version) or get the plugin (which works, but not as well).

The last update I did to v 2.3.1 wasn’t quite as drastic a change (so far) but Now I’m missing the list of my drafts in the Manage/Posts tab. Now, I have to go into WRITE a POST just to see what drafts I have in the wings. What a pain in the ***

If I have a Flat Tire on my car, do I change my oil to fix it? No. But if I forget to put all the lug nuts back on the tire will Fall Off. That is what seems to be happening with WordPress. The tires are all falling off and the car is about to crash.

I have no idea why WordPress keeps doing “ugrades” and keeps breaking the things I like about them in the process. All of this, not to mention hoping that plugins you are using still work.

I’m almost afraid to do the newest update for fear of losing another feature I use and depend on.

Have you found anything else that seems to be missing from WP? Does it get worse with v 2.3.2?

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January 17th, 2008 at 02:42pm | Posted by Joe | Rants, WordPress | 2 reader remarks | Print This Post

Want to Go to The Dark Side?

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I’ve made so many changes around here from the original Andreas 04 Theme that seem to add a little flavor to the Basic offing that I decided to go a little further. I wanted to make it a bit darker and more functional at the same time.

Introducing…

Andreas04 3.1-the dark side

Some things I changed/added include:

• “More”… the split post never worked in the old theme, it does now
• RSS feed subscription links at the top of the page
• More room for the Tag line in the header
• Dynamic Footer (not just the bottom of the page anymore)
• Drop down menu for Categories
• Added Titles to the previous/next posts
• Shrunk the container (actual space used) to 900px
• Search. New to the Navigation section
• Oh, and I made it Darker.

You can take a look at the Darkside Theme live on the Joe’s Freeware Finds Blog or download Andreas04 3.1 now.

Well, this is the way I’ve been spending at least part of my time lately. Let me know what you think of the new iteration of the theme and if you think I should use it here or not.

January 2nd, 2008 at 06:10am | Posted by Joe | Andreas04 Tweaks, Promotion, WordPress | reader remarks | Print This Post

Newest Technorati Changes Screw Up WordPress Inbound Links

 Is it just my imagination or what?

Technorati once again changed their landing page. I’m not going to say anything about whether their recent changes affected my “Rank”. But, I will say just today (since the newest change) my WordPress Dashboard does NOT Show my Incoming Links. T-rati is where WP gets the stats for links in.

Why do these sites change things that work just fine? Doesn’t the old addage say… ” If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”?

Note to Technorati…

STOP Changing things that work just fine, when you do, you BREAK something else…

Has anyone else noticed this problem? Let me know, we may have to start a petition to Stop Changing Things…

Update: It seems the Incoming Links are back after almost 2 hours. Maybe they were just updating something, but they WERE missing on 2 of my WP Blogs, I kept checking!

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July 6th, 2007 at 12:48pm | Posted by Joe | Rants, WordPress | 3 reader remarks | Print This Post