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Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersona…

Upgraded the site’s WordPress theme to FavePersonal 1.3. This time, using the child theme best practice.

Out of sync

Yesterday, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out if Crowd Favorite had yet released an update to the FavePersonal WordPress theme that I am using on this site. It’s been quite a while since I installed it, and I didn’t remember any mentions of newer versions coming out. After some searching across their website, I decided that there has been no update released yet.

Today, I see a notification in my WordPress administration interface of some updates available. Guess what? You are right. Indeed, a new version of the FavePersonal has been released today. But that’s not the end of my lack of sync.

I rush to the Crowd Favorite website once again, trying to find some kind of Changelog that would describe the changes that went into it. And once again I fail. Surprisingly, a company that does so many awesome things for bloggers, doesn’t have a blog on its own site.

Just as I am switching tabs away, getting slightly disappointed, I open up my Gmail and there is an email from Crowd Favorite with release announcement, changes, and all.

Now, if that is not me being out of sync, I don’t know what is.

P.S.: Please don’t take this post as bashing of Crowd Favorite. It is not. It’s just me ranting about timing issues. Crowd Favorite people and products are awesome.

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of McDonalds vs. drugs

Excellent stuff. Via this Quora discussion, which is worth a read.

Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

Excellent Quora thread with many solid examples and explanations.

Developers are also the only group where they are asked to do something which has never been done before, and tell someone else how long it will take before they even know what actually needs to be done.

WordPress plugin : Auto-Schedule Posts

You gotta love WordPress! For anything that you can pretty much think of, there is a plugin already. Just now I realized that I’ve been posting quite a few things at once, and that it would be way better to distribute such moments of “creativity” across the whole day. There is, of course, the manual way of post scheduling, but that’s boring and annoying. Instead, I thought, there could be a plugin to do so. Gladly, I checked the WordPress plugins before jumping into my own coding.

Auto-Schedule Posts plugin does just that and more. For now, I’m setting it to a 60 minute interval and leaving everything else default. Let’s see how that will work out.

Update: Unfortunately I had to disable this plugin as it conflicts with the Social plugin (and, I suspect, many other ones too). The post is not available until later, yet social network notifications are being sent out, resulting in bad experience (endless redirect loops and such).