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The daily blog or should that be slog?

Thanks to the Community Blogger Award I’ve been stretching my wings somewhat and finding lots of new blogs to sample and enjoy and one of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of bloggers are very organised in their blogs.

There’s Menu Plan Monday, Monday Missions, Fun Monday, Tackle It Tuesday, Jump One Jump Twosday, Philanthropy Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Heads and Tails, Flashback Friday… it goes on and on.

Now I have nothing against having a plan – I plan at least two blogs a week – and they both revolve around Australian Idol – Sunday and Monday – I know… tragic. And my other “thing” that I do is every time I finish a book I blog a “review”. I say “review” advisedly as sometimes they are simply. “I read this book. I didn’t hate it.” And this is for me so I can look back and think to myself – hey I did read a few novels this year by gum!

I note that most of these theme memes (and I’m sure there are others for the rest of the week) are for the start of the week which I think could act as a good kickstart to your blogging week. They also give you an “assignment” and sometimes having some restrictions on what to blog makes you more creative rather than overwhelmed with the possibilities. It forces you for example to find “that photo” for Wordless Wednesday or Flashback Friday.

Some of them like Menu Plan Monday and Tackle it Tuesday – give acknowledgement and encouragement to do those mindless and unthanked tasks we might avoid otherwise.

(In fact I’ve been toying with the idea of Menu Plan Monday because really, it would be a good thing if I planned beyond the one day occasionally… And if I did Tackle it Tuesday there would be a lot fewer half empty packets of cereal in my larder and not so many moths.)

But I don’t want to feel hemmed in on my blog.

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And my fear is that if I started doing the weekly meme-theme thang that it would soon become not a daily blog but daily slog. That I would come to resent the computer and my blog because it was giving me homework.

I’ve never been good at homework. Or housework come to think of it.

I’m also fearful that I’d get stuck in a routine and my blog would become less interesting… at least, less interesting to me.

Are my fears groundless?

Are you a fan of the weekly task blog? Do you find it helps your writing/planning/life?

Do you like to read other meme/theme blogs?

Trialling a new theme

I’m playing with a new theme (obviously). This one is called Beauty-50… or at least it is a modified version of Beauty-50… I’m still tweaking… not sure about the donkey orchid… not sure about any of it if I’m honest.

I’d be interested in your thoughts.
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You’ll also see in the left hand column I’ve got a little RSS feed of a random selection of the people I know have been awarded Community Blogger Awards. You can find a full list too. 🙂

Upgrading to 2.3 – what went wrong and how I fixed it

So I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3 and it wasn’t completely smooth but wasn’t too hard either – although there’s been a few tweaks and a couple of plug-ins don’t work yet.

Here’s what I did:

  1. Backed up using mySql then discovered I had WordPress Backup plugin so backed up with that as well.
  2. Deactivated Sidebar widgets and got:Fatal error: Call to undefined function: register_sidebar_widget() in /home/users/web/b2996/ipw.redsulta/public_html/WordPress/wp-content/plugins/widgets.1.0/nrs_fold_pages.php on line 118Grrrr.
  3. Deleted Widgets 1.0 FTP.
  4. Downloaded 2.3 upgrade files from http://wordpress.org/download/
  5. Hmmm new folder is wordpress, old folder is WordPress… do I change the name?
  6. Try not changing name first…
  7. Hmmm it didn’t like that… created a new folder rather than overwriting…
  8. Okay try overwriting files into WordPress…
  9. Upgrade complete but I get this error:Warning: array_key_exists(): The first argument should be either a string or an integer in /home/users/web/b2996/ipw.redsulta/public_html/WordPress/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 176
  10. It’s something to do with the theme. I change from Misty Look to Kubrick and it’s fine. But it’s not my preferred theme.
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  12. Look for new compatible theme… download Mandigo – http://www.onehertz.com/portfolio/wordpress/mandigo/testrun/
  13. Find this code at Nathan Rice – http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/wordpress-23-theme-backward-compatibility/ but can’t seem to make this work so giving up on Misty Look theme and instead start searching for another theme to customise!
  14. Ahhh Meg finds me the link to the new version of Misty Look… http://mistylook.org/
  15. But stupidly I overwrite my style page and now my random header doesn’t work. Arghhh. Also half my old sidebar bits are missing…
  16. I’m over Misty Look anyway! So find new theme here.
  17. Have dinner party with friends and have a great time.
  18. Start re-activating plug-ins, updating when they either don’t work or have a little “this plug-in has been updated” note.
  19. The Silas Partners plug-in that used to display my flickr photos has spat itself.
  20. Start “Sultana-ising” Beauty-50… by changing the images and the font colours.
  21. Update this blog and start worrying about my photo plug-in.
  22. It’s 4.02am. Must go to bed.
  23. Found fix for error in photo plug-in but still does not have the ability to drag photos into posts.