Jude's Blog

Sierra Sky was supposed to be released January 16th, but due to major delays in editing, it was pushed back.

Those edits are now concluded, and the new release date is February 6th. I’m still a bit disappointed at this delay, but they are accepting pre-orders. So be sure to head on over to http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=1510 and place your orders. As soon as the book is released, it will show up in your VIP account ready to read.

I just went through a few weeks of not understanding what was wrong with my blog.  At first I thought it was WordPress, so I visited the help forum.  Discovered that it could be my host, so I put in a support ticket.  Found out a solution that I was reluctant to try (disabling mod_security).  I disabled all my plugins but one, since everytime I did I got an error. Yep, it was BuddyPress (BP).  For those who don’t know, BP makes your blog a lot like twitter and facebook. Makes it more interactive and lets you see a stream of activity.  Kind of neat, but you have to use special themes.  I didn’t realize that when I disabled BP, the theme wouldn’t work without it.  So all the work I put into my theme was worthless, since I couldn’t use it without BP.  BUT if I left it active, nothing worked well.  At first I couldn’t modify any of widgets and then I realized I couldn’t insert any photos.  I then bit the bullet and updated BP to the newest version.  I really didn’t like a lot of the new additions, and you couldn’t turn them off.  On top of that, it turned my 3 column theme into 2 themes,  and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.  So I found a new 3 column theme, disabled BP and then had to update this new theme.  It’s still not exactly like I want it, but it’s close enough for now.   UGH!  So my apologies to anyone who visited during all this and came across any error pages. It was a nightmare for a few hours!  :)