Since my web host moved CC to the “flavor of the day” improvement called Clustered service, all blog functions are not working well. In the past, when a comment came in, I would receive an immediate email notification generated by WordPress. Now the notification may come up to a day late or in some cases [...]
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Back on the 12th, I received an email from my monitoring service that CC was down and posted the event on the CC Status Blog.
The following day, I learned that my webhost had moved CC to the web host’s new Clustered service. I can see what appears to be several improvements by this move, [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Apr 7th, 2008
One of the new features of the 3.6 MistyLook theme is the support for Gravatars.
If you have registered for a Globally recognized Avatar, and it is associated with your comment email address, then the image, of your choice, will be displayed next to your comment in the avatar field.
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As you can tell, Chiriquí Chatter appears to be alive and well once again. Yesterday was not a good day, in more ways than one! It took until about 9:00PM last night, for me to get everything straightened out. Most of the time was due to my lack of experience in searching for malicious code. [...]
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Posted in Software on Apr 3rd, 2008
WordPress has a feature know as a Tag Cloud. As I get time I will be going over all past posts and adding a tag to each post. I started it a week ago and didn’t like the way I had done it, so I am going to try it again.
This will not replace the [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 29th, 2008
WordPress 2.5 has been released. After a short miss start, Chiriquí Chatter is now up an running under the new release. This is a real milestone for me as I had to do the complete upgrade without the help of an upgrade script that I had always used in the past.
When Chiriquí Chatter was moved [...]
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I see that my web host has the latest WordPress version ready to be installed. Before I install it, I have to update my theme to the latest version of MistyLook. When I looked to see if anything had changed, I see that it has. There is also a new three column version of MistyLook.
I [...]
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Posted in Software on Sep 22nd, 2007
I see that the Dashboard area of WordPress is notifying all users to get ready for a new release. Release 2.3 is apparently a fairly significant release and more caution than normal is going to be required. WordPress is the blogging engine that powers Chiriquí Chatter.
With this release many past Plug-ins will no longer work. [...]
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Posted in Software, Technology on Aug 5th, 2007
I upgraded Chiriquí Chatter to the latest version of the MistyLook theme today.
The new theme did change the page image to a different perspective of the bridge. I also changed the background to a gray tone. I kind of like it. I guess I was needing a change.
I have also made a couple other modifications. [...]
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Posted in Panama Journal on Aug 2nd, 2007
August 2, 2007 - My webhost has found the problem and as can be seen from the comment to this post is contacting the WordPress developers. Thanks to my Web host for all the hard work that they went through to diagnose this problem.
August 2, 2007 - My web host is researching the problem. I [...]
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