Well that was a messy upgrade to WordPress 2.7.1 and it almost had me give up not only WordPress, but blogging altogether. After three weeks of intense work on migrating Spinning and Hypercompendia from Typepad to WordPress, redesigning the stylesheets, the logos, etc., then tying up all the loose ends–and there are still several out there that can’t be knotted–Wordpress hits me with another upgrade from the one I just did three weeks ago.
It was easy to do, using the WordPress admin Dashboard panel to just press a button, but when I looked at the site, the logo was duplicated, running across the full width of the screen, and cut in halves there; the body was over to the extreme left together with the sidebar. (UPDATE): Also, the archives didn’t go beyond the first page because the “previous/next” page finder disappeared. Not that I liked it and will change it to show at the bottom of the pages instead as soon as I figure out how, but it was definitely a necessary thing. Going back to the K2 theme editor I found a notice that the K2 Revised theme had been broken so the weblogs had reverted back to K2. Going to theme page, I found a note that I needed to rename the file to K2-Revised without leaving a space. This I did in Lunar’s C-panel, then back in WordPress I selected the K2-Revised, and voila! got back the page navigation menu.
Luckily I had done some reading at the K2 forum so I knew the upgrade might cause some problems. Since I didn’t have a custom stylesheet made up but rather tweaked the originals, I had to copy some of the changes, upload the nightly K2 revision and rename it, change to that theme which fixed the column and logo problems, then had to re-enter all the CSS changes I had made for color and fonts.
Honestly though, between the redirect from TP to WP problems and this, I was ready to just call it quits forever with blogging.
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