omgwtf!

So! I knew it’d only take about a minute before I got tired of that orange thing this new theme had going. So I’ve made a few changes, primarily to the main page, to make it more palatable to the old peepers.

I’ve made it so that you no longer absolutely need to be registered and have a previously approved post to comment. Those measures were only in place because of the spam I’ve been getting hit with. However, since I’ve updated this theme and activated the Akismet plug-in, it’s caught almost 50 pieces of spam in just the past couple days and not one has gotten by. So I’m going to relax the restrictions for a while to see if anything gets through. Right now, the way I have it is that you need only supply a name and email addy to post; I’d like to keep it this way, and that’s what I’ll do provided Akismet keeps up the good work.

In the meantime, I kind of like the changes so far. :) If anyone notices anything heinously broken, drop me a line, would you? There’s still lots of stuff I want to do to this site, and since I have a new, working theme that doesnt have any insane code in it I’m able to make more changes and learn as I go along. I have pause here to say thanks and give a shout out to Kaushal Sheth, who is the guy who made the modified Fluidity 3C 1.0 theme that I used for this new layout. He took a lot of care to comment a bunch of stuff in the code and the CSS and that’s helped make it worlds easier to mess with this thing and learn as I go along. So that’s pretty awesome. Thanks, Kaushal!

Which reminds me – the calendar over to the left is broken in that it adds a trailing / to the end of the permalinks for each date. That breaks the link and sends you to a 403 page. I’ve made a post on the never-helpful WordPress forums regarding this, but of course I havent even received a reply, although this is a problem a lot of people have. As I’ve said before, I hate those motherfuckers over there. Theyre the rudest bastards on the Internet and they think their shit doesnt stink.

Anyway, it’s a matter of actually finding the bit of code in the php that runs the calendar that’s giving me the headache – once I can find out where it is, I can make it so that end / doesnt appear in there, and that will fix the whole situation. If you think you can help with that, I’d love to hear from you! Otherwise, you can use the calendar by just clicking any date you wish to peruse, then when you get to your inevitable 403 page, you just go up and manually delete that last / from the URI. Hit enter, and the page will load properly. I’ll get it fixed as soon as I can; trust me, it’s making me nuts and I am on a mission to find where it’s hidden!

Okay, I’m late for some incredibly boring work that’s due insanely early.

*sigh*!