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I’d like to share good tips for Wordpress, which I think it’s worth sharing.

1. How to rollback theme when you get a critical error
I kinda get boring with my current wordpress theme, which is a default theme for wordpress 2.x. So I tried K2 RC3 theme but as soon as I activated it I bumped into a terrible error and my blog stopped working. :-{

I went crazy but I couldn’t find a solution of rollback on the web. I didn’t want to spend more time to fix K2 and customize it for my blog. So I just wanted to get rid of it. It took a while for me but the solution was very easy. Just delete the theme-specific directory (this case, ‘k2′) under ‘wp-theme’ directory. Wordpress will soon turn into the default theme automatically. I will stick with the default theme for more.

Update: K2 RC3 works just fine. I found it out when I re-do the everything I did, in order to take a screenshot of error message for this blog but I couldn’t repeat the error. So don’t be afraid to try it. (I still prefer default.)

2. WordPress OpenID support
Here’s a great post which covers everything about OpenID support in WordPress. I’ve tried this plugin quite a while but it gave me nothing but a headache. The post relieved me and I am sure that it will give you a nirvana. Thanks, Rotacoo.

Oh, only plugins can complete my world.

To end a WordPress hassle, I need more plugins. I found some of good articles recommending a dozen of plugins. Probably it will take a while to set them up properly, I guess.

The Top Ten WordPress Plugins
Must-have WordPress plugins

WordPress plugin directory
WordPress Plugin Database

Already I’ve spent several hours to accommodate some missing features of WordPress into my blog using plugins since Saturday but I haven’t reached to the point where I can get nirvana. Far from there yet.

Plugin model is a very good idea for software developers and 3rd party developers since they get most of benefits and it’s a win-win for each others. Also good for geeks, too. But for non-tech users, it’s just another heavy burden on their shoulders. Considering “Law of Conservation of Complexity” by Larry Tesler, there lies too much complexity on users’ hand. Someone should take the complexity from users’ hand to somewhere else. It’s a major barrier that we should get across in order to create a mass market. One way around can be a pre-configured package just like APM package (Apache, PHP, and MySQL.)

Will we see the day when people can use blogs with ease of a type writer? Let me enjoy the sunshine of the day.