Skyaak.com Near Death Experience
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Yesterday was NOT the easiest!
Near Death Experience by Iona 2006
I simply wanted to include a snippet of code that would make my blog posts re-Tweet-able and that’s when the problem started.
Without going into too much detail (it is still painful to think about, even now) suffice to say it was a SNAFU.
What was formerly normal suddenly wasn’t.
In fact, I ended up in so much trouble that I was locked out of my own admin area, couldn’t even log in!
At that point I must confess I was pretty miserable and stressed out.
Thing is, we have a couple of promotions coming up and having a defunct website was not a viable option!
In a moment of mental clarity, I went looking for help at the Wordpress.org Forum.
In under ten minutes I had a response to my dilemma. A very kind gentleman named John Nasta swung into action via the excellent forum and 20-odd posts later (over a period of almost six hours) we had everything sorted out.
Lesson learned: Do not mess with functions/php EVER again on the coding side. In the “Manhattan” theme template, this is one rather vulnerable spot that, when altered in the least, can lead to big bad problems.
On the bright side, I am here to tell you that I was more than impressed with the friendly, patient (above all, patient!) attitude that John showed throughout the process of nursing my website back to glowing health AKA full functionality. With mentors like John Nasta, I can clearly see why Wordpress.org is one of the fastest growing user-friendly interfaces on the planet.
There’s nothing like staring down a real-time meltdown with a live remote fixer-upper to reinforce one’s confidence in the Wordpress operating platform.
So kudos to my new friend John, for seeing me through the ‘episode’.
I have expressed my gratitude to this generous guy through e-mail and now want to reiterate in this space.
Anyone who is interested in hiring a Wordpress developer need look no further than John Nasta.
I visited his website @ johnnasta.com and was also very impressed with the high quality of his photographic work. I would invite you to pop in to see for yourself. Very high end images, with amazing resolution and exquisite composition.
It is a great relief to see the patient (Skyaak.com) restored to glowing health. Pulse and temperature are normal, all vitals looking good.
Sounds like it was a big hairy ordeal, and uh… I don’t see the “tweet this” button on here
I do see the social marker button. Have you given the sociable plugin a try? You can make a button that lets people tweet your posts using that plugin, no messing with functions.
Thanks for the suggestion, Rafael. I will look into that. But no messing with functions!