A Ghost of Daisies

I’m very excited that WordPress 3.0 has been released! How this will affect my work related activities is unknown at this point, but I’m hoping it’ll make things easier. The new admin section is monochrome pastel gray/purple which is nice, but I miss my darker gray.

I was looking at new themes for this blog but haven’t found one quite right. I’m even thinking about moving this blog to the main domain at Godaisies.com since I don’t feel too inclined to build a new website from scratch. We’ll see though!

I’ll be changing my blog’s theme to this one soon!

In the css, if you add the following code:


li.current_page_item{
/* Change the background color below to control how the navigation/menu section you're in changes color. */
background:#3c78a7;
color:#777;
}


the background will change colors. :-D

Correction:

That hack only works if you’re in the TOP LEVEL menu pages. As soon as you go one level deep, it quits working. Argh.

Warning: Back up your database and your entire WordPress website before proceeding. I am no way to be held accountable for you breaking your website.

This is the trick I used with my 1and1 hosted WordPress hosted website. I found this method mentioned with no detail after spending forty minutes looking for a way to delete a misspelled Custom Field.

1. Go to your database’s phpmyadmin.
2. In the left column look for “wp_postmeta”
3. Click on Browse at the top of the page.
4. Find the Sort by key: drop-down menu and choose “option_name (ascending)” or “option_name (descending)”
5. Under the “option_name” column, look for the name of the Custom Field that you want want to delete.
6. Click the red X in that row to delete the Custom Field. Repeat for each instance of that particular Custom Field you wish to get rid of.
7. In WordPress, open up a new post and scroll down to Custom Fields. Look in the drop down menu to make sure that Custom Field is now gone.

I have been updating as much of late because I’ve been pretty busy between school work and my assistantship. Then today I was sending out (what felt like) dozens of emails to various teachers, the county district’s school librarian head, librarians, AND sent in my application for reference internship. I was so wiped out that I came home and slept for a few hours. So onto progress on the two websites I’m doing for my job!
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I can’t wait to try out the photo editing, though I wish they had gone in depth on what they meant by flickr integration.

If you’re one of the ones who are having trouble upgrading your WordPress blog to 2.9 which is hosted by 1and1, here’s how I did it:

• While in your WordPress Dashboard, click on Tools, then Backup. Back your stuff up!
• Then click on Export and export your database. Remember where you put it. I recommend downloading it to your computer.
• Sign into your 1and1 account.
• Then head to the Administrative side of things.
• From there click on MySQL Administration.

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Now go play!

Help from this website.

Directions Here

Thank goodness!

Make your own WordPress theme at PixoPoint! I’m trying to get it to upload images from my own computer but no luck so far.

Sadness.