It’s funny how the things you dread often turn out to be dead easy when you finally do them and the things you expect to be a doddle, turn into a disaster.
Last week on the fourth attempt I finally set up phpmyadmin so that my developer can access only the database for yours2share and not the whole of the yours2share control panel. phpmyadmin is a great piece of software, used by everyone, so I thought this would be easy. No. The worst instructions I’ve ever seen. In the end I manually configured the config file based on the config file a friend sent me. I would never have put the right information into the right boxes in the so-called wizard, the labels were completely misleading.
This frustrating process didn’t enthuse me for my next bit of software fiddling, upgrading WordPress, the software behind this blog. Everything I’ve ever upgraded up until now has been messy, even nightmarish, so I’ve been putting this off. I finally decided I had to do this because I’ve been helping some friends set up WordPress websites and they are all in the newer version. I’ve been getting into a muddle as the admin screens have a different layout – it’s all very well when I’m working it out by myself, but I’ve ended up giving phone tutorials to newbie bloggers and it doesn’t look clever when I’m hunting around for the right section.
I’d read the blurb and it didn’t instill confidence, even though WordPress is used by so many people. Then I found the WordPress Automatic Update Plugin. It sounded good, but it’s still a beta. Then I saw 47,000 people had already downloaded it, and thought, “what the hell”.
Wow, it works. Really really well. Congratulations to