I’ve just spent a bit of time messing about with a new Wordpress theme for the channeltom.com website.  I’m not sure about it, let me know what you think.

Cheers!

Yesterday I noticed that WordPress 2.7.1 had been released, and keen as I always am to take advantage of updates and fixes in software (as I write this I’ve noticed that the auto draft saving thingy now displays the right time, yay) I applied it straight away, before toddling off to work.  Later in the day I took a look at the old blog stats (as I tend to constantly do, hoping for some Google love, or just love generally to be honest) and noticed that the site didn’t look quite like what it oughta.

The upgrade had of course made adjustments to files within the theme that I was using and replaced the files with updated versions.  My CSS was gone, and my header image had vanished.  Nothing looked quite right.  Initially I panicked and thought that I would never remember all the little changes that I had made and sulked.  Later, I started to work my way through and slowly the site came back to life.  Hopefully now is all restored as it was.

If I hadn’t have customised the view of the theme then I guess things would have all gone swimmingly, as basically things defaulted back to the out of the box look.  I’m now hoping to find some magic plugin that will dump my WordPress install into source code control in case I cock it up like that in the future.

Teach me for blindly installing updates I suppose.  I’ll know next time.