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Atahualpa’s revenge
Two reasons I didn’t post yesterday:
1. I’m still not 100%. After doing three loads of laundry and doing all the shopping (Target, PetSmart, the local Italian deli, and the supermarket), I was wiped. Managed to make dinner but only because it wasn’t too complex — just a rib eye steak and Potatoes Lyonnaise for my family, cereal and a couple of eggs for me.
2. Atahualpa killed my blog.
Atahualpa looked like the perfect theme. The description brags, “Over 200 theme options on 25 admin pages, drop down / fly out menus, fluid, fixed or hybrid width, turn sidebars on /off per page type, auto image resizing, 4 extra widgets and MANY other features. For WP 2.2-2.7 and WPMU.”
200 options — I like that! It seemed the ideal theme for someone who wants to learn about themes, see how changes to the CSS leads to changes in appearance, optimize functionality, and restore the fucking frogs to their rightful position. And it worked, too, for all of about one hour, and then everything crashed. All I got were “time out” messages when I tried to go to my site. Not even a nastygram from Blue Host.
So for now, I’ve reinstalled Thematic, and I’m off in search of another theme. Grrr — I wish it would have crashed BEFORE I had spent over an hour creating a header that would have knocked your socks off. It was a veritable frog orgy. Optimized for Atahualpa, of course.
D.
I first read that as “Atahualpa killed my dog”, which put me in mind of the They Might Be Giants tune “Youth Culture Killed My Dog”.
I don’t have a dog. But if I did, I have no doubt that Atahualpa would have tried to kill him.
I am sorry to hear that, you’ve been the first to report that the web server timed out while saving options. All the options that you’ve customized should still be saved in the WordPress options database table though.