An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Does My Server Suck?
Why, yes. Yes, it does!
This morning silent E speaks and I were completely offline. Why you ask? Well, no idea, says I.
It also seems that the upgrade of WordPress does not care much for my “Blogs I Frequent” roll. So, now I’m am busily snooping out ones that are compatible, and I gotta tell ya, I am not impressed. Why do people who design these things want to squish them all together? I like wide, and they have narrow. Slapping 3 columns into half a screen doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. But then, I’m old. I have old eyes and old eyes like to be able to discern between the post, and the links on the sides. sigh….
I’m not giving up, but until we can get this resolved, the blogroll is gonna be blank. Sorry ’bout that!
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Regarding the blogroll, the problem is likely the template you’re using. Blue Wonder uses the old method of displaying the blogroll. That method was depreciated in WP 2.1, and apparently it is now gone entirely. Unfortunately, the creator of that template did not change the method of displaying the blogroll with the last version I could find (1.0.2), so you’re going to have to do it manually.
What you (or whoever has access to the server) will need to do is…
- Open up the theme’s sidebar.php file in a text editor (preferably on the server interface itself because you will need to eventually save the change there; it should be in the /WordPress/wp-content/themes/blue_wonder folder)
- Find the line that says <?php wp_get_linksbyname(’Blogroll’, ‘before=<li>&after=</li>&orderby=name&show_description=0&show_updated=1′) ?>
- Replace that line with <?php wp_list_bookmarks() ?>
- Save
- If you did this locally (on your own machine), you will need to upload the new sidebar.php file to the folder listed above
I could also send you the theme I’m using, Journalized. I have modified it to be both fully-2.1/2.2 compliant (and 2.3-compatible if you don’t mind the lack of tags) and to take advantage of widgets. It isn’t as pretty as this theme, and you’ll need to do some work to get stuff like the BNN ran, and the custom blogrolls in.
“BNN Rank”, even.
Wow. I’ll pass that along to the powers that be…. I’m fairly sure they’ll understand the language.
I wonder….if I put the blogrolls on a separate page, think that would work? :/