Posts Tagged ‘blogs’
Kilroy Says: Download WordPress 2.8 at your own risk
Written by Kilroy
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:55
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A long time user and avid fan of WordPress (WP), I have to say I love the WordPress community. I'm talking about a bunch of folks who work hard for free to bring you great themes like the one you see on this site every flipping day. They do it for the love (and little else) and I am very appreciative. I mean where else are you going to get awesome themes and a user friendly platform like this for free? And that's one reason I have never complained about the hiccups which sometimes occur when using WP…until now.

It was announced today that WordPress reached a milestone with it's latest "upgrade." The milestone in question was that WordPress 2.8 has had over 1 million downloads. Everyone on the thread over at the WP Blog was positively giddy. I'm wondering why? Maybe it's because their sites didn't crash after upgrading to this latest version. My experience on the other hand wasn't so pleasant.

Since upgrading to WP 2.8, my backend (no pun intended) has been broken. Additionally, several experimental themes I'm working on will no longer work with my site. A little research revealed that scores of people have sites which are now busted to hell because of the latest WP upgrade. And yet, we're breaking out the champagne to celebrate 1 million downloads.

With so many people's sites wrecked due to the 2.8 upgrade, why in hell is WordPress still offering it? As soon as they were aware of this, at the very least they should've put up a warning to download at your own risk and at most, pulled 2.8 until 2.8.1 stable was released. No. Instead, we're encouraging people to download and install it.As I said in the preface to my comments, I love WP and I've seen a lot in the years I've been blogging with them, but this I don't understand.

 
MTW: “Change is good!”
Written by Chad Phillips
Friday, 23 January 2009 10:20
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[Editor's note: The photo and video accompanying this post were added by Ron McClure Jr, unbeknownst to Mr. Chad Phillips, the creator, editor and administrator of MyThoughtWorld, and also the author of the following post. The video is a rag-tag montage of pictures from his posts over the years, and is meant to give tribute and hopefully a chuckle or two. The sappy music was chosen for its overly dramatic effect (Chad is a drama queen), however we here at MTW truly appreciate Chad's hard work, and I personally wish to thank him for affording us the opportunity to spout our opinionated rhetoric. He is not gone for good, but just stepping back...for now (he has control issues).]

…and now a message from our founder:

I'm writing this post to inform our readership of some much needed changes taking place around here. But, to quote my kids' favorite author, Dave Pilkey, "Before I tell you that story, I have to tell you this story…"

Once again the old MTW mailbox has been flooded with letters of both concern and complaint. If you're new here, you probably don't have a clue why there's concern. But if you're an MTW fan, it's no secret that up until just this past week, MTW's content was, well…(how can I put this gently?) static. The fault has been mostly mine, as MTW Regs T.R. Oglodad and Ron McClure Jr. have been serving up some pretty good fare. Once in a while, even Santiago and Cal get into the act. I just haven't had time to edit and administer the site.

The reason for this is bittersweet. Basically, since I was forced into "early retirement" by the conservative rag (I mean that lovingly, BTW)  I used to work for, I went into business for myself. With the birth of my entrepreneurship, I just haven't had time to edit for this site, much less do any blogging of my own. And administration? Forget it. It ain't happenin'. That's the bitter part. The sweet part is that business is good and getting better, but the bottom line is that the extra business is eating up my blogging, editing, and administration resources.

Therefore, I am turning over the editing and administration duties of MyThoughtWorld to MTW Regulars T.R. Oglodad and Ron McClure Jr.  T.R. is a veteran MTW contributor – and the brains behind most of those one of kind, brilliantly "touched" images you'll find on our site. He's also a hell of a writer in his own right. Ron McClure Jr. is likewise a man of many talents, not the least of which is editing and writing. Ron brings with him considerable experience as a team leader as well. His talents will be most welcome here in an administrative and creative capacity.

Please make these guys feel welcome as they fill two rather large shoes (MINE!) in joining the MTW editorial board.

Thanks guys for bailing my tired ass out and good luck.