WYSIWIP » wordpress http://zakimirza.com/blog What You See is Work In Progress Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The New wysiwip http://zakimirza.com/blog/the-new-wysiwip/ http://zakimirza.com/blog/the-new-wysiwip/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:50:31 +0000 Zaki http://zakimirza.com/blog/the-new-wysiwip/ Introducing the newly designed wysiwip blog. Special thanks goes to theBelafonte for all his help. Designing and building this theme has been quite an experience. This theme has been a long time coming. I didn’t realize the core part would only take an hour or so. The rest of it was just tweaking the CSS and how I wanted to lay the information out on the home and subsequent pages. WordPress has really made easy to create not only blogs but also CMS based websites. For all those out there who don’t think they can make a custom theme, think again. It’s really quite simple.

I’d love to get some feedback on what you guys think of the new look.

I’m going to constantly be upgrading and adding new things to this theme, if I left it, it wouldn’t be a work in progress now would it?

]]> http://zakimirza.com/blog/the-new-wysiwip/feed/ 2 WordPress Whoa, More Like Woe. http://zakimirza.com/blog/wordpress-whoa-more-like-woe/ http://zakimirza.com/blog/wordpress-whoa-more-like-woe/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:07:36 +0000 Zaki http://zakimirza.com/blog/wordpress-whoa-more-like-woe/ Just sitting there trying to tweak this theme to be valid XHTML and CSS and messing around with some plug-in, all of a sudden something just goes wrong and wordpress (version 2.2) breaks and several features wont work… (Cue dramatic music) I’m sitting here thinking what could possibly be the problem? So I start undoing and backtracking to figure out what could have gone wrong. Nothing is making sense.

Luckily I had backed up the files. Well I decide to just overwrite what I’ve got thinking it would be just fine. Now…. I can’t login to the back end. Horrayz! (yes with a Z…. it was pretty dramatic when it happened. It DESERVES the infamous Z)

Now I’m thinking, this might be a good time to look at version 2.3…. I mean why not… latest edition, lots of cool new features… sure I’ll upgrade. Right… upgrade.

I carefully follow the steps to upgrade and I get the page saying upgrade successful and everything. Horrayz (yes again….) Ready to make a new “posting” I rush to the login screen… only to be told I have my cookies disabled. Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

I double check everything, on two browsers… on two computers. Cookies are fine, delicious even. So I go on the hunt to figure out just what the heck is going on. Turns out, several people are having this cookies error after upgrading to version 2.3.

I start Googling for the original WP 2.2 files, find them and this time I deleted everything and reuploaded the files. Finally it worked. I go to upload my themes and plug-ins and WHAM it screws up again… so now I know its not wordpress, it cant be the theme… then its the plug-ins messing with wordpress. Ok fine.

I narrow it down to a single plug-ins and delete it, and reinstall it. And finally here I am.

All of this could have been avoided if the WP 2.3 didn’t have a problem with cookies. But all in all it was a good experience seeing the infamous white screen of death and figuring out how to fix it.

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