Sean from BlogInstall.com fixed my blog! He ROCKS!

by Daniel Rothamel on October 20, 2009 · Comments

in Blogging, technology

As noted in my previous post, I was having crazy Wordpress problems earlier today.  None of my themes worked, and the site was unable to find any of the .css files needed to make things display correctly.  Basically, it was an effed up mess.

I put a tweet out there, asking for some help.  Lots of folks stepped up, among them were Reggie Nicolay, Chris Larson, and Max Chirkov.  They all deserve major kudos for trying to help me.  However, try as they might, and patient as they were, all twitter’s men could not put the Zebra back together again.

Just when all seemed hopeless, I got a tweet from Sean.  Sean said he was willing to take a look at all my stuff to see if he could figure out the problem.  After about an hour with Sean, he was able to discover the problem– and fix it.  It had to do with file permissions that I screwed up, but that is another story, entirely.  Sure, I’ve got a few t’s that need crossing, and i’s that need dotting, but I’m back up and running, and that is what really matters, all thanks to Sean.

In the course of chatting with Sean while he was fixing my problems, I discovered that Sean is a developer in Florida who offers FREE blog installation.  If his blog fixing skills are any indication of his blog installation skills, I would venture to guess that Sean is probably a good guy to turn to if you want your blog install to be quick and painless.  I’m just glad that Sean was listening, and stepped forward to help.

Here’s to Sean!

Thanks for helping the Zebra get its stripes back.  :-)

  • Ahh I spoke to soon. I just posted a comment over at realestatebloglab.com guessing it was because you installed Thesis 1.6, but I guess not since I checked out your header ;)

    But just be forewarned when you do upgrade I had some css calls that had totally changed and some of my custom.css was not working with the "new way" of doing things. Luckily I got mine fixed in about 10 minutes. The price I pay for acting so quick on updates I guess.
  • realestatezebra
    Since I've had Thesis, I've learned not to jump too quick at upgrades. Same is true for Wordpress upgrades.

    I use a plugin called "open hook" to manage the little bit of customization I do to thesis.
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