I’ve been working on upgrading to WordPress 2.2 and in the process hit a few bumps.
First, thou shalt not delete wp-config.php - a commandment that I broke. Be ye not so foolish. While I had a backup of sorts - there were still some problems. That is why the blog was down for a day or two. Thanks to Rusty Johnston for basically helping me get past some persistent problems I was having with that particular file and getting the blog back up.
Second, the Hebrew and Arabic portions of a bunch of posts did not survive the journey. I’m actually glad that happened at this stage because it helps me realize I need to find another approach to plugging these languages into posts. Hopefully there is a method for doing this that will survive future upgrades. That’s something I’ll have to figure out.
Third, I’ve never been fully satisfied with the way my last theme (from Glued Ideas) was working. This was not through any fault of the designers - as they had created a lot of features I liked. There were just certain aspects I wanted to be different but did not have the time to change. Consequently, you may see some experiments with themes in the near future.
Fourth, there are some bugs in the way I did this past upgrade (besides deleting the wp-config.php file) that I need to address.
Thank you for your patience. My approach to these kinds of things is that they are learning experiences. I am a huge fan of WordPress. Sometimes the flexibility, adaptability and sheer power of the WordPress platform creates its own problems - because it leaves you with so many choices and options. But that is life and I am not really complaining.
Suggestions, ideas and constructive criticisms are welcome.
1Rhapsidiomite on Jun 21, 2007 at 10:49 pm:
I believe it has to do with character encoding, included in a meta tag in the section of the HTML code. I may be wrong, but I think you need to include meta information that establishes the encoding as ISO 8859 encoding. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859
“[Part 8 of the encoding] covers the modern Hebrew alphabet as used in Israel. In practice two different encodings exist, logical order (needs to be BiDi processed for display) and visual (left-to-right) order (in effect, after bidi processing and line breaking).”
Try putting something like this,
in the section of your HTML. Note the “-8″ means part 8, so you could also include all the encodings this way, I think:
Let me know if it works.