I’ve had some unintentional and rather drastic spring cleaning on the blog this weekend. I decided that I really should upgrade the site to the latest version as it was still running version 2.1.3 of WordPress, and the main release has just hit 2.5.1. The upgrade of the main software went fine, it was K2, the fairly complex theme I was using that hit problems, not helped by their support wiki being down for maintenance all weekend. After some messing about with that, in the end I decided that perhaps it was a good opportunity to change the presentation, so I’ve now swapped over to a totally different look using the plaintxtblog theme, with a couple of tweaks to support my inline picture styles on the older posts. As usual, I think everything should be working, but if anyone finds anything that isn’t working properly, give me a shout.
Tag Archives: K2
What’s in a Name?
So having taken the decision to switch to the WordPress hosted service, rather than hosting on his home connection so as to allow more time for writing, Beth’s brother has been putting it into practice! After last week explaining why he is blogging, this week he’s explaining the name of his blog, Memetic Syns.
Unfortunately, for those of you looking for a similarly big explanation of the name of this site, I’m afraid it falls into the quirky, no explanation, writer whim category!
By the way, if you’re browsing our site through a mobile browser such as Opera Mini, you’ll find that the site looks a little different. I’ve installed the WP-Mobile plugin from Alex King, which checks the browser looking at the site, and if it is listed as a mobile browser, presents the site using a low bandwidth theme, that should render quicker than the usual K2 theme.
K2 Update
If the site looks a little different, it’s because I’ve updated the K2 theme which I am using for presentation. Amongst other things it changes how the header and sidebars are handled, so some of the tweaks I’ve made still have to be replaced. It also has a couple of new toys, the most obvious being the archive slider that appears at the top of the front page – try it out and see what you think.