jamused

I tried this, but it doesn’t actually seem to disable the flash uploader for me… It shows up in the plugins list, it says it’s active, I cleared my browser cache–but I still get the flash uploader. Ugh.

This appears to have been a hosting problem. I tried looking at the database with phpMyAdmin and couldn’t connect; after I filed a ticket and the host fixed whatever was wrong with MySQL, the categories suddenly reappeared.

Well, as a last resort since I knew the database was ok I tried deleting the entire wordpress directory and reuploading 2.3.3. It worked. No idea why…

My understanding was that WordPress creates at least a default About page during installation, that says something along the lines of “This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from.” Is this not the case?

At any rate, I figured it out: I had to go into Manage | Pages and create a page named about and a page named archives using the provided templates.

The blog is at https://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress

As for updating the permalinks, under Options | Permalinks I chose date-and-name-based, and that seems to work. E.g.

https://www.joshuamacy.com/wordpress/2007/11/19/marginal-revolution-why-most-published-research-findings-are-false-2/

finds the right individual post page. It’s only the /about/ and /archives/ that seem to be missing/unable to resolve.

Joshua