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It also occurs to me that if forewarned, people could probably avoid this pain in the *ss. I would guess that people making incremental upgrades, on a point-by-point release schedule, did not have this problem–only those going from 2.2 or lower up to 2.6 got slimed. Which means that one of the upgrades was transitional–a 2.1 or 2.2 user could upgrade to the transitional version (for example, it might be 2.4), and then upgrade from there to 2.6 WITHOUT losing all their category data. I probably just wasted two and a half hours of my life tediously re-inputting 52 categories and the associated data, when the clowns at WP could have simply made the transitional upgrade available and saved me most of that time.

What the hell is WP thinking? I didn’t see any warning about this in the readme file, but this seems to be very common and a HUGE bug–at the very LEAST, they should add the warning that one should make special note of the category names. I backed up my databases and all the files, but this will be a MASSIVE pain in the ass to fix.

Thanks for nothing, WP.

The page is titled “Creating a Search Page“; the theme I am using has no specific search.php or other search page. I tried to follow the instructions, and got at least two big errors when the page displayed at the end of the process; that was days ago and I have since trashed the page, giving it up as being far more than a simple fix or two away from making it work. I imagine that this was due to the fact that the Codex page suggested using the existing “page.php” file, and I am coming to think that the theme I chose to work from was coded by a poor programmer; so little seemed to jibe between what I was asked to modify and how to modify it.

Really, isn’t there something that doesn’t require (a) intermediate-to-advanced coding skills and (2) a lengthy, multi-step trial-and-error process? Nobody has a pre-made template available, or god forbid a widget that gives a list instead of full-post pages?

Seriously, I never saw a search engine before that didn’t cut the results down to excerpts. Why is this so impossible to find in WordPress? Do people really prefer to click through a dozen pages of full posts instead of getting a quick, summarized list?

Hmm… I’m beginning to get the feeling that this kind of thing just doesn’t exist…

Umm… that’s very nice, Claus, thank you. Unfortunately, it does not answer my question: how do you center the calendar? If there’s a command for that in all of that code, I can’t see it. Would you mind singling it out for me?