Daniel Ionescu

I had to change my Wordpress theme again today, as the About and Contact pages wre not displaying any content with my new theme (thanks for those who mentioned it to me). I couldn’t really figure out why, so I decided to change the theme.

I found this other minimal theme called Cleanr, which is in use now. Check out this link if you are on the look for some other cool minimal themes. I particularly like on my new theme the typography, which is large and crisp — and it even has Helvetica on it, if you are reading this from a Mac.

In related news, “Safe mode is used on your server. It’s time to change hosts if yours doesn’t want to upgrade.” was the message that I noticed in my WP Dashboard today. After a quick chat with One.com (my hosting company), it’s official that I will have to change hosting companies if I want to install WP plugins that need this function off. Not happy.

– Later edit: The safe mode problem mentioned above also stops me from using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, given the fact that my connections is playing up today, so the built-in upgrade mechanism won’t work. Anyway, if you are using Wordpress on your own domain, 2.8.5 went up today and has the “the best available protection”. The changes include:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.

Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.

Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.

Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.