Some of the blogs I read, like Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Melissa Clouthier and The World According to Nick, have set up a “headlines” section, where they post headline links to news stories and articles they find interesting, but don’t necessarily have the time to do a full-blown post. Since the lengthy Scrambles are just too much work, I have been mulling using a “headlines” section as a replacement.
I want to be able to have comments on those headlines, so using a third-party service like Nick does is pretty much out. For a couple of technical reasons, I don’t really want to put the headlines into the same database as the rest of the blog content, so I wanted to have it as its own blog like Hot Air. One of the neat tricks that Hot Air does is allow a single login for both the main blog and the headlines, and that’s where I started running into problems.
I attempted to tie the user tables of the nascient “headlines” blog to those of my test blog (which, while being on a subdirectory of this place, is on a different database), and I just couldn’t get that to work properly. I ended wiping out that blog and the tables it created in the test blog database. At the same time, I was trying out a different mobile theme plugin on the test blog. Between the two things I was trying to do, I somehow hosed that blog, with that mobile theme being forced in IE even after the “force theme” checkmark was unchecked (necessating a cookie/cache clearing), and then all the page/post links attempting to find its equivalent here. That got fixed through brute force (i.e. an elimination of that plugin and then a reinstall of the WP files).
However, as that got fixed, Shoebox and I both lost access to the admin pages here. There was nothing that should’ve been affected on this blog, as the test blog is in its own directory and its own database. After failing to find a more-elegant fix, I had to reinstall the WP files here as well.
Oh well; life goes on.
