Took The CMS Plunge

After some thought, I installed WordPress.

And I didn’t drown. Not completely.

My choice was based on years of experience with web-stuff DIY, and a lot of research on the topic of content management systems. For the small-time online presence, WordPress is fine. Even better if you know how to customise themes.That will happen here, slowly, with available time.

First, I do have to resolve the 32 MB memory limit with Joyent.  Otherwise, this site will never have a custom header. To insert images into a post, I am taking the ftp step and linking to web address of images hosted on my server. Big roundabout.

If anyone has useful plug-in suggestions, leave a comment.

Update1:

Still trying to find out why I can’t upload images bigger than 100 KB, or so. Weird nuisance. Joyent is looking into php settings, and a friend suggested looking into php Safe Mode settings.

Update2:

Safe Mode wasn’t on. Hunh. And so, the mystery continues. I won’t be much active here until this gets resolved.

Update3 and RESOLUTION!:

Seems I didn’t fully understand how to enable error logging but once the super Joyent engineers did that, they found the problem and solved it! They tell me that a 500 error usually means something related to Apache, and in my case it was a server-side fix for an issue with MaxRequestLen.

No, doesn’t make any sense to me. In other words, there are some things that are best left to the experts, like internal server errors. Happy that it’s been resolved.