Shyzer.com

If the title above didn’t interest you, then just go ahead and skip this post.

Wordpress is a wonderful blogging tool. Hell, when used correctly, it can even be a fantastic CMS. But for the love of all things Holy, when it decides to have a little fluke and stop working, it just stops. No error reports, no logs to go over, just the simple fact that WP decided it’d been working for long enough and that it was time to take a break.

And when you disable all your plugins to find out which one is the culprit, which is the solution 90% of the time, and that doesn’t work…well, let’s just say I’m not good at figuring out that other 10%.

HIF! went on the fritz today, loading every post I’ve ever made on the main page (fixed) and deleting every custom field (all the country flags) I’ve ever added (not fixed). The custom field mystery is the biggest stumbling block I’ve hit so far. The only code I touched all day yesterday was the quicktags.js file for Christ’s sake!

The irony of it all is that I don’t even care. HIF!’s current theme and design has already reached a breaking point that I’m gearing up to fix and the pure fact that a few flags aren’t showing up isn’t really that big of a deal. After hiring a few new writers, my next job is to seriously try and get a redesign made for the site.

But that still doesn’t erase the fact that I’ve got no Earthly idea why those damn flags just vanished.