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Consumers Resolution Services LLC, a local Beaverton company that helps consumers and homeowners locate resources to assist them in dealing with creditors and lenders recently became the recipient of a newly developed Wordpress theme by Toms Skyline Design.

This Wordpress theme includes a slider that utilizes the new set thumbnail functionality in Wordpress 2.9.2 and later. The theme includes several options and is a two-column type theme, with a widgetized sidebar and widgetized footer

I also created this header image of a loupe and documents that I thought I would showcase here as well.

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Plews Brews, a local pub, tavern, watering hole and place to meet in St Johns (the area in North Portland) was in need of a new website; when along came Jeffrey Selin. Jeffrey owns another St Johns business, the Dojo Creative Agency. He also frequents the local watering hole and contacted Tom to see about customizing a new site for Plews Brews.

What they wanted was a new Wordpress theme that would represent their business and their connection to the local historic aspects of St Johns. Toms Skyline Design created a new site for them, which of course, includes a lot of CSS, PHP and image editing. Now they only need to begin re-adding content. Good Luck to everyone over at Plews Brews.

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Once again I have nearly wrapped up a face-lift, installation and setup of a newly customized Wordpress site. The site I have been working on is for a local organic restaurant in the St Johns area of Portland, Oregon. Angel, the owner of the restaurant, The LadyBug Cafe, was in need of a face-lift and talked with another St Johns business owner, Jeffrey Selin of the Dojo Creative Agency and they decided to make the switch. Jeffrey and the Dojo, whom I perform behind the scene Web & Wordpress Development for, asked me to help him make the face-lift for the Ladybug site become a reality.

And … Woila … here it is

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Can’t login to Wordpress Admin? Has your Wordpress site disappeared? Wonder … have my files been corrupted? These are all good questions and most likely you answered yes to one or more of them … and that’s how you found this page.

So, what do I do? How do I get my Wordpress site back? How do I recover without losing everything?

Well, fortunately you just backed up your Wordpress files earlier today and you can delete all your Wordpress files except your wp-config.php file and the wp-content folder; and then upload the files you backed up, right? You didn’t back your files up earlier? Okay … do you have the same version of Wordpress files on your computer as you had installed? Or, had you upgraded your installation and have a different version of Wordpress on your computer?

It might be this actually happened while you were upgrading from one version to another. Or it could have happened when you were attempting to upgrade a plugin, when you didn’t read the details first. You may have been upgrading Wordpress and did not deactivate your plugins first. If either of these scenarios sound familiar, you are probably trying to figure out how to fix this mess. It could be that one of your plugins is incompatible with the newer version of Wordpress, too.

Let’s start with first things first. If you do not have all the Wordpress files on your computer which you had on your server, you can get a copy of whatever version you had installed by going to the Wordpress Download Release Archive. Download the version you need, if applicable. As you get ready to fix the problem, an important caveat is DO NOT overwrite your wp-config.php file because it contains your database name, database username, database password and without this information you will not connect to your Wordpress database. That would not be good.

If you delete all the Wordpress files on your server, except wp-config.php and the folder wp-content you will be ready to upload the former version that was working. However, depending upon what you were doing when this error occurred, you might also want to consider adding one more step. Create a new folder outside of your Wordpress installation and move all your plugin folders to the new folder you created. Now upload the Wordpress folders and files and you should have access to your site again.

If you were not upgrading plugins when this happened, you should be able to move your plugin folders back and then reactivate each plugin. On the other hand, if you were upgrading a plugin when this happened you may need to locate the prior version of the plugin and upload it instead. Once you have your site back, make sure to back it up and backup your database, too.

Now, if you were trying to upgrade your Wordpress version, make sure to deactivate all your plugins. With current backups, the other consideration is whether or not your Wordpress theme will work well with the newer version of Wordpress. If you can verify it is compatible, then go ahead and try it again. Once you upgrade, you should be able to reactivate your plugins. You may want to activate them one by one and check to make sure your site is working okay after each plugin activation. This will help you isolate a problem plugin.

If this was helpful, let me know.

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I have been busy and noticed I hadn’t got around to posting to this site in several months. Of course, unless I post some information on here nobody that stops by this site will know if I am still here or not.

Its Another Portland Skyline

Also, several months ago I converted this site over to a Wordpress site and also have my old Rants, Raves & Insights blog up and running on this site, too; notwithstanding that I have not posted to it in almost forever it seems. What I noticed was that I had grown tired of the theme I had been using and decided to build a new Wordpress theme from the ground up. You are looking at it. I call this Wordpress theme, Skyline Two. Website design, coding, Photoshop design and slicing, Flash design and a bunch of PHP coding all go into developing something like this.

This is the second Wordpress theme I have built from scratch in the past few weeks. You can see the other theme at Portlands Foreclosures. I also created a landing page for them too. Check out the “Coming Soon” link on that site to see a Real Estate Listings mockup with a nifty Flash intro.

Speaking of Flash … if you haven’t clicked on the PLAY INTRO link on the header image above … do so now. That’s another Flash intro that I am using here; because I Flash adds to a site, but an entire Flash Driven site is not so good for most sites, because Flash still is not as search engine friendly as standard XHTML and CSS driven sites. Nonetheless, Flash still looks cool and adds some pizazz to a site. In fact, I have recently put together a couple other sites that include Flash banners. Check out Just Settle My Debts and Renegotiate My Home Loan websites.

Rather than run on a bunch on this post, I will keep it short by saying that I have also been doing some social media marketing with Facebook and Twitter, some online classified marketing, developed some landing pages, tying some of them to lists and autoresponders. I also put together a few ebooks and done a little bit of work with Joomla, too. I will write more later to update the site.

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In the process, I have included a plugin which added a Twitter button on all pages, posts and comments. So, now if you place a comment to any posts on this site you can tweet it, too.

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I am using Wordpress 2.7.1 and have been unable to upload images using the Flash uploader or image uploader. Every time I try to upload an image Firefox crashes. I am using Firefox 3.0.10. I was not sure what was happening. However, it is a pain when there are plugins that require this method to upload images that can be accessed for their respective application.

I also had been having problems that were specific to Firefox; with being able to add widgets to the right sidebar, using the new dynamic sidebars in Wordpress. I really like using Firefox, so these issues have been a little disconcerting. What I discovered about the image uploader crashing is that after I deactivated Google Gears, Firefox does not crash when I try to upload images. So that seemed to be the fix for this issue.

If you are having the same problem, check to see if you have installed the Gears addon. You can find that from the Menu Bar. Click on Tools and you will see Addons in the dropdown menu. Select Addons and see if you have Gears installed and activated. If so, deactivating may be the solution; however, it may be necessary to uninstall it, too.

Hopefully, this will help someone else experiencing the same issue.

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