Comments on: Open Micro http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/open-micro/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/open-micro/#comment-9917 Dave Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:36:38 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3748#comment-9917 I tried downloading XAMPP once, but couldn't figure out how to get it running. Maybe I should try again. Thanks for the encouragement. You're probably right about the plugins. I deleted the most recent additions first, since I figured I'd gotten by the longest without them, and one of them could well have been to blame. But in the spirit of national austerity and sacrifice, I decided it was high time to get rid of some of the extras in any case. Things were getting downright rococo around here, and I doubt that very many people ever used ShareThis or scrolled down far enough to read the feeds from qarrtsiluni and postal poetry (which used an extra RSS plugin because I decided the native RSS widget just wasn't good enough. It probably just needed some extra CSSification in the theme files), among other excesses. i might add an "email this" button if/when i get around to upgrading to the new version of WP. I tried downloading XAMPP once, but couldn’t figure out how to get it running. Maybe I should try again. Thanks for the encouragement.

You’re probably right about the plugins. I deleted the most recent additions first, since I figured I’d gotten by the longest without them, and one of them could well have been to blame. But in the spirit of national austerity and sacrifice, I decided it was high time to get rid of some of the extras in any case. Things were getting downright rococo around here, and I doubt that very many people ever used ShareThis or scrolled down far enough to read the feeds from qarrtsiluni and postal poetry (which used an extra RSS plugin because I decided the native RSS widget just wasn’t good enough. It probably just needed some extra CSSification in the theme files), among other excesses. i might add an “email this” button if/when i get around to upgrading to the new version of WP.

]]> By: Rebecca Clayton http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/01/open-micro/#comment-9916 Rebecca Clayton Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:02:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=3748#comment-9916 Bummer! I'm no WordPress expert, but it's probably more a matter of one or two problematic plugins, rather than sheer numbers. Still, 30 sounds a little overboard. Since you clearly have a need to try all the plugins (as I do--how else can you decide if you really like them or not?) have you tried running your own little localhost world on your own computer? It can be very instructive. I think you run Windows, so you'd probably want XAMPP, which is available free from apachefriends.org Otherwise, there's a Mac version (MAMP) and of course the one true Linux solution, LAMP. Bummer! I’m no WordPress expert, but it’s probably more a matter of one or two problematic plugins, rather than sheer numbers. Still, 30 sounds a little overboard.

Since you clearly have a need to try all the plugins (as I do–how else can you decide if you really like them or not?) have you tried running your own little localhost world on your own computer? It can be very instructive.

I think you run Windows, so you’d probably want XAMPP, which is available free from apachefriends.org

Otherwise, there’s a Mac version (MAMP) and of course the one true Linux solution, LAMP.

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