I upgraded my WordPress install to the latest version – and it broke my theme!  Something non-standard in the CSS I presume – so I have found a different theme to work with and am in the process of making it my own – could be a long and painful process – in the meantime I am learning much more about CSS than I knew originally so it’s a benefit. Must lose the indent on this style … success (although you haven’t seen the change!)

And then I thought I’d see about making a music index page – and lo and behold, there was a plugin to do that too!

The initial flurry of activity has died down – as work and social committments and some much needed DIY in the house have taken over for the next week or so, then I’ll be back to this again with renewed enthusiasm (I hope)

There’s a widget or a plugin for everything – whatever you want wordpress to do!

Tried for ages last night to get the Scorch plugin to work – unsuccessfully – it wasn’t until I tried the old website pages I realised that at some stage, the hosting company had managed to disable the .sib MIME type on the webserver. It’s IIS so I couldn’t do it with .htaccess and had to get them to do it for me. All sorted now and working – now I have to work out a consistent size for the plugin on the page.

Not keen on the inbuilt WP Gallery so have tried a test run of the Slimbox plugin – I am a fan of  Lightbox2 outside of WordPress, so it’s reasonably easy to use! Added a bit of  CSS styling and there you go. Next stop some music and the Scorch Plugin … maybe not tonight!

PS The test run is here on the Photos page

I am in the process of dragging barbaratate.com and douglastate.com under one roof – and for better or worse have opted for a WordPress installation to double as both a blog and a CMS – let’s see how it goes as I move the content from the two sites across! To start with though, there will be very little new content to see!

Barbara