The WordPress Upgrade Blues…

It looks like the recent round of upgrades to both WordPress and Advertising Manager has screwed up the layouts of my blogs totally.

Originally, I was using Adsence Manager as a Widget Control Panel. Paste any code into an add, give it a name, it showed up in your widget list by name. The change to Advertising Manager changed the names. No big deal. everything still showed up in the widget list with the new names. It was a bit of a pain to go through and rebuild the widgets but I caught the change before I wiped out all of my blog laypouts and went through and made a list of the diferent sidebar configureations….

Now, the WordPress upgrade…Widgets are different. Advertising Manager has one box in the list with a dropdown list of “ads”…There go all of my sidebar layouts again. And to top it all off, the formating seems a little off. What should be centered isn’t.

So what was once a very elegant work-around is now a beautiful mess with sidebars full of unnamed and unidentifieable advertizements and text boxes…Other than that I love the changes to the Widgets Page…

Pardon our dust as we spend some time fixing what really wasn’t broken…