I’ve been using WordPress as the backend software to this blog for over three years. There’s a lot of content here. It’s been great – until now. These days, wordpress is acting crotchety. I can’t edit an existing article without going through some hoops. I’m finding that making comments is failing as well. My friend Jacek tried and gets a blank screen. I do too.

I’ve tried to get some technical support through the wordpress forums, but that’s a dead end. WordPress is free and open-source, which means that the good people who make it don’t charge for it. It also means you get what you pay for and if it breaks, well, you get that, too. I used to be a programmer. It’s way more fun to write new programs and features than it is to debug and fix problems, so the multiple attempts I’ve made to get help have gone unanswered.

This isn’t just a simple matter of reinstalling. The content is mixed in with the software files and the articles are within a database.

I’m not sure which way I’ll take it. I may open a new blog and just call this my archived Korean blog. I may try to fix it which means something might break. I may just hobble along until a clean solution appears.