Sorry for being so absent. My WordPress installation went completely belly up and if it wasn’t for the fact I have more than half a clue, I reckon it would have stayed that way forever. What went wrong? Well, the site stopped running the PHP scripts that allow me to log in. This meant I could not access the administration panel at all. Why? I have no bloody idea. It just stopped. I had been messing with some plug ins and that is the only thing I can think of. The repair took me a long time but I eventually got there. I had to do a fresh install of WordPress with a new database, then point the new install to the old database, and then install the new WordPress upgrade. I’m still getting things back to the way I want them to work but I am glad I decided to do the upgrade while I was getting it all fixed.

I have one plug-in that I wish I could find somewhere. I would like to put over in my sidebar/widgets the latest post from a selected category. Has anybody seen this done anywhere. I’d like to have a little bit that says what album I’m obsessing over at the moment. If anyone has any idea please leave a comment. I could write it myself but I’m too busy to really care at the moment

It was good to get the web developer brain back in action, even though this is the time I would usually be working on music. The reason for that is that I just got a rather large contract for a site migration from Mambo to Joomla for a industrial skills training company. Their current site had been hacked and had some nasty code inserted into the guts of it that attempted to install malicious BHO’s onto the visitors browser. They need the site done and dusted ASAP so that should be starting next week. The main thing I’m trying to source now is a way to import the existing database content into the new Joomla database so I can save them considerable time in the data entry phase. Even if I can get the data in in a default category / section and then they just edit those details I would be very happy. I’m sure they would be happier.