Food In The Fort

The upgrade of Food In The Fort from Wordpress 2.3.3 to Wordpress 2.6.2, including the Freshy 2 theme and all plugins (at least those I planned on upgrading) is now complete. Overall, this was a pretty smooth upgrade. Not at all as nightmarish as some of the Drupal upgrades I’ve done. There were a couple of problems which I’ll note below, and there’s some further backend stuff I want to do, but for now I’m calling it quits.

The first problem of note is that the WP-Print plugin is not displaying the little “print me” printer icon anymore although it upgraded successfully. If I recall correctly, when I first installed this plugin I had to make a small modification to the Freshy 2 theme in order to get it to work correctly so tomorrow or sometime soon I’ll go ahead and take a look at that.

The other problem, perhaps a much bigger issue for me, is that the Flexible Upload plugin has a not insignificant bug. Luckily, I found via the Flexible Upload developer’s forums that nerdTainment has provided a patch to correct the problem until the Flexible Upload developer can roll it into the official release.

Oh, there was one other thing… Apparently because the way Wordpress handles attachments (like images), the old CSS styling for the image thumbnails no longer worked. Leaving my old CSS rules in place I simply added the following rules to style.css in the Freshy 2 theme’s directory. This will probably work just fine with whatever theme you’re using, although I can’t promise it won’t blow up in your face.

.attachment { margin: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #aaa; }
.alignright { float: right; }
.alignright { float: left; }
.aligncenter { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }

Well, that’s it for now. I think I’ll go reward myself with hot dogs, chips and cheap beer.

About the author:  I've only lived in Fort Wayne for slightly less than a year but have grown to love the city in this short time. We're very lucky to have such a diverse food culture that goes far beyond the typical fast food fare. As for cooking, I used to dread it but it's become one of my favorite activities to do with Catherine. There's something very relaxing about cooking and setting down to a nice meal together. Well, it would be relaxing if it weren't for the dog sticking his snout into everything but it's fun nonetheless. Read more from this author