Dislike Facebook Likes

For a while I had enabled a facebook likes plug-in. This was mostly for the purposes of experimentation on my part. Sometime over the last few months I had read an article about people who add facebook and other social links to their sites as having the appearance of being desperate. However, that is not the reason I dumped the plug-in.

I dumped the FB likes because the api was just terrible. Instead of some neat div or button, it had a table wrapped around things and a ton of inline styling. Even worse, it was slow to load. I never really expected anyone to ever like an article I posted as there are so few of you (except myself, how desperate would that be? Hah!). So why waste your time making my site load slower? If anyone wants to actually like an article, they can copy and paste the link into a FB post and like it from there.

Phew… upgrade complete

Well I had fallen behind the wordpress guys a few versions and needed to get the site back up-to-date. This involved backing up the files and the database. I had disabled my local version a while back so I had to get that up and running and then manually apply the new version there to ensure that it would not break anything. This took a bit of effort as I had to configure the virtual private host on my system again and I had to dig around to remember exactly how to do that.

Once I had the new version running locally I had to copy everything up to the server and then check again. WordPress has a really nifty auto-update feature, which I unfortunately can not take advantage of as I have customized my installation. For those who have not visited in over a year, if you had created an account, I’m sorry to say that I had to dump a bunch of user accounts due to spambots. My apologies and I understand if you decide not to create a new account again. I did change the settings so that you do not have to register to leave a comment. However, posts do not display until I approve them. Trying to make sure the spamage does not get displayed.

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