Nov 26
Bits and pieces, and a plea for help
A sigh of relief time. I’ve finally got one of those “hang over your head” jobs done. I inherited a site to manage which needed a ground up re-design and new content, and today I finished the basics. There’s still stuff to be added to it, but now it’s happily up and running.
All in all, it was helped by the fact that this blog installation seems to be going through some conniptions and that made me find time for something else. I’m not entirely sure, till I try, that this post will appear. Something (possibly a sudden glut of spam, seems to have overloaded my Akismet spam trap, and clogged up the cache. Earlier today the whole site was inaccessible, but now the site appears to be working, but I can’t access my Admin pages. That means of course, that I can’t de-activate Akismet to sort it out.
While I’m waiting for my technical support to come up with something, does anyone else who’s running Akismet with Wordpress have any ideas? I haven’t had much luck googling for a solution.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Have you tried upgrading to the latest version of WordPress? Yours (2.2.1) is even more out of date than mine (2.3). At least that might cut the Gordian knot and let you access your admin pages. Of course that depends on you being able to get into your hosting server.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Thanks, Peter. yes, I’d like to do this. I’m waiting for my hosts to reinstall Fantastico, which is the applet I’ve used to install Wordpress. If it doesn’t happen soon, I will try a manual install, and hope I don’t lose anything. I have, however, with my host’s help, now got my admin facility back.