Good thing I didn't have anything irreplacable in there

[layla]

My web host has been bugging me for months that the Wordpress installation I've been using to post Kismet fiction (don't get alarmed, there's nothing new and hasn't been for ages) is out of date and a potential security hole. So I finally stopped being lazy and hit the button to upgrade. Naturally, when I did this it blew away all the customization that I'd done on the previous installation, including custom graphics and tags.

AAAUGH.

Well, the whole Wordpress thing was an experiment anyway. I'm thinking about going back to the drawing board and just posting the Kismet stories as plain ol' HTML, like I used to do. All that Wordpress managed to do for me was inundate me with a never-ending deluge of spam anyway.

In fact ... as I'm currently done with Freebird (LAST PAGE UPLOADED! YAY!) and I'll be quite busy the next two weeks with freelance work, perhaps I'll work on the website today.

Comments

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

I'm on WordPress for Movie Make-out (http://www.moviemake-out.com) and the upgrade totally fucked up my wa until I figured out where they put everything. It's like getting a brand new cell phone: confusing until you actually have to use it and knuckle down to figure things out on your own.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Yeah. I know. I think at this point, it's just not worth it to me to go through that whole learning curve AGAIN, for no more than I get out of it. I've actually been pretty happy with LJ as a blogging site -- I realize that it's got its problems, and I have no idea if it'll still meet my needs in a couple of years, but all those kinds of things are taken care of, and all I have to do is push the button. (I used to be a total DIY, hand-coding person -- what happened to me? I'm getting old and lazy!)