Walter Hutchens’ Blog

Just installed the newest release of WordPress, version 2.3. Did it through Dreamhost’s “One-Click Installs” feature. It was painless, an all appears to be in order.

I will, though, have to rename the folder that includes the “defalut” theme for the new installation, then create a folder named “default” into which I’ll install a copy of the Skimmed Milk minimalist them that I like, to work around the problem mentioned in my last post about WP mysteriously reverting to the default theme on occasion.

I’ve written almost nothing on this blog for a long time, but I haven’t intended to take it down. The reason it has sometimes disappeared lately relates to a technical issue with WordPress, the blogging software I use. Some time ago I noticed that WordPress would mysteriously revert the to the default theme, undoing my selection for “presentation” to a minimalist theme called White as Milk. In trying to fix this, I 1) updated the theme to a newer version 2) tried removing the default theme and 3) when none of that worked, installed a variation on the theme called Skimmed Milk. Alas, that also didn’t work. In fact, because I’d removed the default theme folder, the blog would just disappear whenever WordPress would try to revert to to the default theme.

A new version of WordPress will be a released in a few days. That may or may not resolve the problem.

Tonight, with the blog again MIA, I searched for a solution and found that, though the issued isn’t flagged as resolved, there is a clever workaround—just install the theme you want in a folder named “default.” Duh!

Maybe now this blog, however neglected, won’t disappear from the face of the earth.