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I did run into one problem upgrading the theatre breaks blog to WordPress 2.8 and that was with the image upload functions which stopped working altogether. I deactivated then reactivated all the plugins and managed to narrow it down to just one – Category Icons. Visiting the site of the plugin author, it seemed there was a patch released although this hadn’t been comitted to the centralised Wordpress plugins library. Anyway it’s all working again now. The other thing is that the sem-google-analytics plugin breaks 2.8 so I’ve shifted over to Ultimate GA instead. Onwards and upwards.

Doing some upgrades to Wordpress 2.8 should be finished soon. No significant problems to report.

Complementary to the London Theatre Breaks blog hosted here at usefulwiki, we’ve just launched a new Theatre Breaks Magazine styled blog over at theatrebreaksmag.co.uk.

The content is more focussed on the theatre breaks themselves and maybe a bit less on individual shows, and the theme is more orientated towards pictorial representations of the narrative about theatre breaks in London. Main categories are

London Breaks
Hotel Deals
Theatre Breaks
News
West End Guide
Things to do

** Book theatre breaks in London **

I’m trying out a new static page strategy for the Theatre Breaks blog which might help to sort out a problem I’ve been having with duplicate titles but then again might create an ongoing maintenance problem. The thing is to learn as much as I can before making a drastic decision.

Thinking about the theme that is used for the Theatre Breaks Blog, I wonder if we should consider a magazine theme like the one being used at City Escapes Theatre Breaks?

Each of the blogs on this domain has now been upgraded to run under Wordpress 2.7.1

Just a quick note to say that we’ve noticed some sever slowdowns on all sites associated with the server that usefulwiki.com is hosted upon. It’s frustrating if you are trying to edit the wiki for example, and even the casual browser is getting a poor service at times.  Sorry about that. It’s been patchy like this for a couple of days now but we hope the usual reliable service will be resumed very soon.

Well it seems that wp-supercache wasn’t working as its supposed to leading to commenters seeing very old versions of some blogs so it’s been disabled again on Classroom Displays.

Sorry if this led to a wrong impression as to how often Classroom Displays is updated

The WP-Supercache Wordpress Plugin has been installed on most of the usefulwiki.com blogs, with some teething problems but nothing too serious. The use of a cache should greatly reduce the load on the webserver CPU by replacing lots of PHP processing with static HTML files.

September is a busy month on the classroom displays blog with a new school year starting up. The number of people joining the flickr group and uploading pictures of their displays has grown from strength to strength in recent months.