Testing commenting preparatory to restoring commands.
The security system I had to prevent commenter emails from being furtively reported by wordpress to the government is not yet restored, which should not be a problem since you should be using fake emals
Some wordpress code was complaining that about the the PHP version, and bad things were happening. So I updated the php version. And the server died, would not boot
So reinstallation, with the latest PHP and wordpress. And it did not like my (very old theme) and crashed
Unfortunately the old database seems to operate on different theme selection principles than the new database, or perhaps I am doing something silly.
Nah, it was my error. There were a bunch of spam comments that Mariadb rightly did not like, and when I told it to ignore them, instead of halting with a mysterious error message, then all was well.
All changes are unintentional, and frequently things have changed when they should not and I do not know why.
I know why everyone is getting new cats. This was an accident and error on my part, and I neglected to fix it being busy with more urgent matters. (And more serious errors.)
If people are bothered by it I will fix it. The fix is trivial, I just neglected it.
Testing commenting preparatory to restoring commands.
The security system I had to prevent commenter emails from being furtively reported by wordpress to the government is not yet restored, which should not be a problem since you should be using fake emals
spam filter test
So… what happened?
Some wordpress code was complaining that about the the PHP version, and bad things were happening. So I updated the php version. And the server died, would not boot
So reinstallation, with the latest PHP and wordpress. And it did not like my (very old theme) and crashed
Unfortunately the old database seems to operate on different theme selection principles than the new database, or perhaps I am doing something silly.
Happy to see you and the blog are still here. I was afraid “they” got to you.
I have just discovered that old mariadb backup has incompatibility with the new mariadb restore in edge cases
Still struggling to restore the comments.
The old Microsoft had religion about backward compatibility.
Lacking that, you get update hell. You update, and things break, so you have to update something more, and things break massively.
Nah, it was my error. There were a bunch of spam comments that Mariadb rightly did not like, and when I told it to ignore them, instead of halting with a mysterious error message, then all was well.
Well, as a side effect I think this is a nice theme, simple yet elegant. The old theme was not aligning properly on mobile browsers.
Are we getting different coloured cats?
All changes are unintentional, and frequently things have changed when they should not and I do not know why.
I know why everyone is getting new cats. This was an accident and error on my part, and I neglected to fix it being busy with more urgent matters. (And more serious errors.)
If people are bothered by it I will fix it. The fix is trivial, I just neglected it.