Here it is…

Wordpress has the awesome feature of telling you what searches people use that results in your blog being returned as a result.

As seen below, someone had a burning question that my blog was able to provide the answer to.

I mentioned in December that the blog had trouble loading pages. After a WordPress upgrade, I didn’t see the problem recur, which it usually does after an upgrade.

So, find an interesting post on the blog (lol) and try leaving a comment. Hopefully this will work for 100% of you.

Edit: Found the issue again when trying to access a comment on a post. Blah.

I’m having a technical issue with this blog.

(Ignore the lack of meaningful content in the recent weeks. That’s just me being lazy.)

If you click on http://averagejoe.cc, you’ll get the blog main page, which contains the most recent posts and links and pages and all that good stuff.

But, if you click on any link that goes to either a post or a page within averagejoe.cc, the site will send an RSS feed instead of the requested page.  But, should you refresh the browser at this point, the requested page loads normally.

I’ve seen this personally from many different locations with both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox and across all recent versions of WordPress.  I’m honestly at a loss as to how to resolve this.  My readers (a.k.a. my dad, sister, cousin and maybe 5 of my friends)  can’t read anything that’s not on the main page because of this, and it’s kinda frustrating.

Going to the WordPress  support forums didn’t help, as they said they couldn’t replicate the problem.  But it still persists even to now.

So… any ideas (from anyone that may know the first place to look) ?

The previous theme didn’t work out because the sidebar was not working (super-ultra-technical reason: the theme isn’t sidebar widget ready, and the sidebar didn’t show archives by month by default.) So, after a brief stay at Default, I chose this theme called Blue Box 0.1.

There’s still a couple of things I have to do to make it look the way I want. I was able to Photoshop the blog name into the header image, but I still need to switch the splash image (which I’ve disabled for the time being.) If you were lucky enough to see it while I was working on the theme, you would’ve seen this between the header and the first post. The new splash image will reflect more on my own personality and will feature things that interest me. This does not include fly-fishing (or whatever it is that guy in the default splash picture is doing.)

I also need to make a change to the CSS stylesheet: I want to make it so that I see a quote image when I use a blockquote.  I see this all the time on other sites: I just need to figure out how to emulate this.  I know it can be done, I just need to sit down and actually do it.

If any of you visitors to averagejoe.cc (all 7 of you [the number 7 is being pulled from my ass since, without a working stat counter, I could be the most popular site on the intertubes (LOLOLOL I'm so funny) and not know it]), you may have noticed the post archives not working.  If you clicked it, your computer may have thought the page was a RSS feed as opposed to a HTML page. Then again, this may have been only happening to me.

But if it has happened to you, clear your browser cache and it should all be good in the hood (yo).

Since I was updating WordPress anyway, I decided to search for a theme that wasn’t the WordPress default.  I found Andreas 0.8 ver 1.0.  I had to change some of the code for the sidebar since it was using some deprecated functions, but beyond that, I think it looks solid. It shares some layout elements with my previous theme (blix) but I like the color scheme a lot better.

Feedback would be appreciated.

As you can see, I changed the look of the blog to the WordPress default. The theme I’ve been using for a while, a modified version of blix, broke when I updated WordPress from 2.0.x to 2.1. Specifically, the navigation bar at the top did not display the static pages (the about page, the “what am I watching” page, etc.)

So, until a new version comes out, or until I learn enough PHP to look through the code myself, it’s default WordPress theme for me!

Upgraded the blog software to the lastest version of WordPress.  If there’s anything that isn’t right that should be, let me know, and I’ll get to it at my leisure.

Click on the Humor category to display all posts in the blog that bring the funny.

(3 posts in one day? Whaaaaaaaaa?)

Changed the theme of the blog from the standard.

I’m gonna change the colors later, as they look like shit. I’m a big fan of darker colors.

Edit: The last thing to change is the banner and the thing with “Home” and “About”. But I’m thinking this color scheme is ok for now. I may change the green links to blue. Maybe.