Goodbye K2
After a week of flaky things happening, the K2 theme I’ve been using for a very long time now finally had to be removed. I’m not sure what’s going on with that but there are some very serious issues with that theme all of the sudden. Which is odd since nothing had changed on my site when the first problems with the comments first started happening.
About a week ago I was notified that my Comments weren’t working at all and the page was hanging. I checked it out and disabled my plugins and all the normal troubleshooting ideas. But the notion that this was even having a problem didn’t make sense because I hadn’t changed anything or installed anything new or even setup any new plugins. It just broke. I disabled the K2 theme and it magically started working again. So I went out and downloaded the newest version and things were good.
Then a couple of days ago, I got a message saying that my Sidebar was broke. Sure enough, the K2 Sidebar no longer worked and it defaulted to the basic Widget config. Which is really odd because it worked in the morning and then stopped in the afternoon. I hadn’t touched the site. So again I downloaded the newest nightly build and it worked again.
Today Muse sends me an e-mail and says that no one is commenting because they can’t. It’s broke again. Yeah, disabling K2 fixed it again, so it stayed disabled this time. So now, I’m using a new theme that I’m not terribly thrilled with but looks decent enough. Try and find the Categories listing or use the Archives. The Categories are hidden on the page and I didn’t even realize where they were for a long time. The Archives page just doesn’t work.
Well, this will just have to do until I can spend some time looking for a decent theme that support Wordpress 2.5 and has AJAX support and a working Live Archives. Sometimes I really hate computers….
bah, who needs archives. all you need is a search box and the navigational previous/next things. archives is good for bots and spammers.
and who cares about categories. no one really cares how many categories you have. just linking them from the post works. it’s all part of the metadata. :D
As for 2.5 compatibility, there aren’t too many out there that are horribly too incompatible. If they are, odds are they’re not compatible with 2.3.3 anyways. The only major change in 2.5 was the gravatars.
I guess you just need to learn how to make your own theme or pay someone to make one for you hehe. :P
I’m not going to miss the K2 theme. I was never a big fan of it. I’m old fashioned that way. The only thing I like is the search that happens while you type. But it looks like you have it on this theme too. (I just tested it though and it didn’t work for me) But who does searches in personal blogs anyway?
Um, what exactly do you mean by “Live Archives”? I use a pretty nifty pluggin for my Archives page if you’re interested.
actually, search is probably used a lot more for the owner of the site. But I do have to admit I’ve had to use the search once here. I know cybr said something about something and I didn’t know where the post was and using the search worked out for me.
Yeah and the owner can search through the Admin area plus it’s not a big deal if the “Live” search doesn’t work. But it works if you press “return” so it’s no biggie!