Wayne Priestley

This is a repost of a blog I wrote when I first changed to WordPress but unfortunately it was deleted when I experienced my Siteground problems.

I decided to switch to WordPress after talking to David Allen on an interview I had with him on his podcast Mac20q.

A little while after that I was a regular reader of FruitBytes a blog from a Goerdie lass with a passion for Mac’s.

I was a RapidWeaver user from the start, when I first switched to the Mac it was the application I used for my blogging and website creation.

Nothing bad to say about RapidWeaver but I feel like a change and as WordPress is free it seems like a no brainer not to jump in and have a go.

I’ve had some major issues the last few days with Wordpress and Siteground.

Here’s where it starts…

On Tuesday 24th I installed a RSS plugin on my Site, all was going fine until I tried to transfer some files via FTP using Transmit and noticed that it couldn’t make the connection.

Just a glitch I thought.
Then after closing Safari and going off to do a few other things on my Mac I tried to log back into my WordPress admin account and the page would not load.

After a few attempts I thought that Siteground must have a problem with the server hosting my site and that it would all be sorted out later that night. It was getting late so I thought I would just leave it and all would be well the next day.

Unfortunately all was not well the next day and I still had the same problem of the page not responding when I tried to access the cPanel on Siteground.

It was time to raise a ticket, so off I went to raise a ticket when I noticed that I had an Un-read ticket waiting for me.

I was shocked to read the message from Siteground telling me that because my website was consuming high server resources my account was to be SUSPENDED if the issue was not sorted within seven days.

After several tickets to and from Siteground explaining what I thought the problem was, and how I could resolve it I decided I would simply log into my admin page and start to Un-install plugins starting with the last one I installed until the problem was solved.

It was here that I ran into problem number two.

I was unable to get access to my admin page on WordPress so I couldn’t remove any plugins.

After another ticket raised I was given alternate links to access my cPane, bit still had no luck.

Eventually I requested that Siteground remove the WordPress installation for me so that I could start again from scratch. I didn’t see this as a problem because I had only made a few posts and if I lost some data it wouldn’t be a problem.
This however didn’t resolve the issue of accessing my cPanel. One ticket later on Thursday 26th I had a response from Siteground telling me that the problem with access was due to my IP address being banned from the siteground servers……

So all is sorted now, I have a clean install of WordPress and I’m in the process of restoring my posts and settings etc.

I do seem to have lost my first post somewhere but it’s not a problem.

What I can say is that Siteground throughout this whole thing have been excellent in terms of support, I don’t think I’ve ever had to wait more than a few minutes for a response after raising a ticket. Fantastic support!

Thanks….

Well after spending a little time getting used to the WordPress UI I decided to go and have a quick look for a free WordPress theme.

This was a wrist numbing experience to say the least. There is certainly no shortage of themes out there for WordPress, just type WordPress theme into Google and you can sit there for hours paging through the results.

As it was a free theme I was after to start with I paged through what seemed like hundreds of sites looking for what I wanted.

I was looking for something clean, without images and I wanted a plain white page layout.

I found the Corpvox Theme while on the DailyBlogTips site.

It’s pretty much what I was looking for to start with, I’ve made a few very small changes to the code to get things looking a little more what I want, but one the whole I’m happy with it.

Now I need to look through the list of plugins available for WordPress and decide which ones I need to install.