Well, I THINK I have my site/sites back to where they were, after an ill-advised foray into Buddypress. This is the second or third time I’ve tried to activate Buddypress and make my various class websites more than an info-delivery system for my students. But alas, so far Buddypress has baffled me. Somewhere, somehow, I’m missing something. I still find WordPress conversations thick with vocabulary and ideas I just don’t understand (yet.)
I wish there was a happy medium between striking out on my own to figure out how to make my sites work the way I want, and simply using what is provided by the college (Blackboard.) But so far, no dice. In an account of a recent discussion related to “A Domain of One’s Own,” one of our college tech people wrote, “Here at YC we have almost started getting faculty installs of WP.” I wonder if “almost getting started” is like being “a little bit pregnant.” Either you are or you aren’t. Either we’re starting or we’re not. I’m guess, for the time being, not.
So, mistakes are good, failure is the path to success, etc., etc. That’s what I tell my students, and I DO believe it to be true, so I guess I’ll learn from this latest de- and reconstruction of my WordPress install. I knew enough this time to log in on another browser when cookies were keeping me from logging into my dashboard, unlike the last big crash I caused. But unlike last time, I haven’t figured out what the problem is. Not yet, anyway. I’ll try again, maybe next summer when I have more time to let the sites go down for a while.
