I have no idea what someone visiting my website this afternoon might have seen.<\/p>\n
I needed to upgrade WordPress. When WordPress 2.8 dropped, I uploaded the files, and found my Dashboard (that’s the admin panels I see when I blog) completely trashed. WordPress 2.8, in its initial release, was a total freaking memory hog, and it required more memory than my server was willing to give it.<\/p>\n
I bit a bullet. I downgraded back to 2.7.2, and I decided I could wait until the clear problems with WordPress’ memory bloat — and let’s be blunt, it is<\/i> memory bloat — were sorted.<\/p>\n
2.8.1 came and went. So did 2.8.2 and 2.8.3. And then 2.8.4 came out, and it was absolutely urgent, hair on fire urgent for anyone on a previous version of WordPress to upgrade. Security flaw of some sort.<\/p>\n
But was the memory issue dealt with? I had no idea. I couldn’t find out.<\/p>\n
So I waited. I searched hither and thither on the ‘net. I couldn’t find an answer. Mostly because the problem of memory bloat wasn’t seen<\/i> as a problem — a solution was offered, but it wasn’t a solution, per se. It was a workaround. (Allocate more memory to WordPress. That’s not a solution.)<\/p>\n
Finally, I said, I’m going to upgrade. I knew that 2.8.x worked<\/i> on my server, even if the Dashboard was fucked. And then I could ask my host to increase my memory allocation. That seemed like a plan.<\/p>\n
I deactivated my plugins. I turned WordPress back over to that wonderfully awful WordPress design, Kubrick. I hate Kubrick. It’s worse than Moveable Type’s default style, Vicksburg.<\/p>\n
Of course, it take for-fucking-ever<\/i> to upload WordPress core files. And my server decided to disallow an FTP connection about midway through. Joy.<\/p>\n
Files were uploaded, I logged into WordPress and upgraded my database, and…<\/p>\n
I had to restart Opera. It refused to let me enter the admin areas; instead, it kept showing me a cached “You must upgrade your database” screen.<\/p>\n
Not a big deal. I love Opera. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Except for when Opera fucks up e-mail synchronization. That’s frustrating as hell. Especially because it didn’t use to do that.<\/p>\n
In any case…<\/p>\n
Much to my surprise, WordPress ran in 16 megabytes. The dashboard wasn’t fucked. I could access everything<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’m trying out a new theme, Brian Gardner’s Core Blog Theme<\/a>. It’s pretty plain, but it’s good for a change.<\/p>\n The grungy theme I had for a few weeks? Yeah, it didn’t do it for me. That happens.<\/p>\n I’m upgraded, and things don’t appear to be broken.<\/p>\n That’s a good thing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have no idea what someone visiting my website this afternoon might have seen. I needed to upgrade WordPress. When WordPress 2.8 dropped, I uploaded the files, and found my Dashboard (that’s the admin panels I see when I blog) completely trashed. WordPress 2.8, in its initial release, was a total freaking memory hog, andContinue reading “On Website Fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4095],"tags":[351,4096],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-meta","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}