The install did not go smoothly. The plugin may not even be available anymore, the URL doesn’t work, which is why I can’t remember jumping through hoops to get your blog to work better on Facebook…

Yesterday I finally yielded to pressure and upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. My continued hesitancy in upgrading is based on past experience and lack of killer new features being added to WordPress. I don’t advise upgrading for every little dot dot release. I do advise backing up before updating…

As my job search dragged on, I decided to retroactively edit a pile of old blog posts. Then again in 2019 I decided to edit them all again in the hopes that I may yet be able to blog my way to a better career…

One of the things I’ve been going to do for a long time is make a WordPress plugin, you know just to prove I could. But for  the longest time I didn’t have an idea. Then I made a whole bunch of web mashups with PHP and I decided after all that a WordPress plugin would be easy…

So I’ve continued to tweak the sidebar.php file that controls the rightmost column on this blog. I still have a bug in my WordPress install where conditionals are not returning the correct, documented, expected results. However I’ve worked around that, I hope it will go away completely. In the mean time there is a handful of debugging code in my sidebar.php file, I can live with that, I’m not trying to win any design competitions…