I found something Officially Not Good about the WordPress upgrade:
My pages are gone.
Pages are, well, the other pages of the blog, such as the wish list, my icon credits page, and my Currently page that recorded what I’m reading and doing on it.
It’s not earth-shattering — it’s not like I’ve lost years of actual journaling — it’s just a pain in the neck, as now I have to reconstruct them. Not overly high on the list of priorities when I’m still trying to figure out how to get the upgrade to work the way it’s supposed to work. Fortunately, I think I have an original copy of the icon credits page that I built in HTML that will save a few hours of work, although updating it will take a lot of time too as I try to figure out what’s missing and what’s been phased out.
I may be able to find them manually by poking around on my server, but they’re not showing up on the sidebar and the admin panel can’t find them either, so I am assuming they are lost. If they show up somewhere on their own I will be delighted, but until then, I’m writing them off.
ETA: Aha! Found them masquerading as regular posts. Added them to the links bars by creating a new Owls’ Court category. Messing around with the theme again too, hoping it will fix things… but so far, the category error is still appearing up there. Digging through the support forums is a lengthy process and is still hurting my brain, as it has been doing since the day of the upgrade.
The new theme – and especially the font – looks sharp in my Firefox browser. Courage!
Baby steps, baby steps… Thanks Steve. (Amazing how appealing the untouched Classic template can be, what?)
I don’t know if the change is deliberate or accidental, but the new font with the white background is very hard to read, especially for those of us that use spectacles; as is the old font with the new background. Interestingly, the former font is still in use for the comments function. Much easier to read.
I note that Steve thinks the new font is good, but we(2)don’t.
Dad
Further interestingly – the font in the comment box is the old one, when it gets posted it changes to the new font.
Don’t like.
Dad
I haven’t edited this template yet. It’s a boxed one that comes with the upgrade. There’s the usual tons of tweaking to do, and I don’t have a lot of spare time in which to do it. My old template isn’t compliant with the new protocols.
I’m not sold on the font either — I find it hard on my eyes in several different sizes.