Well, I gone done it now.

I broke my blog.

Today I decided to take the plunge and try to upgrade to WordPress 1.5. I had hoped it would be a smooth transition for the most part except for a little bit of tweaking here and there in order to accommodate the bento layout that I had made originally from scratch. Boy, was I wrong.

Although I followed the upgrade instructions to a T, there must have been flaws in my code (I had always assumed there were) and I encountered some problems — numerous annoying, enigmatic problems that were hard enough to identify, let alone solve. After a few hours of fiddling with things, I finally managed to get the layout to appear almost as it should (albeit a bit wonky), however the comments section is still being difficult and is refusing to display.

At this point I’m seriously regretting trying to upgrade. . . one of these days I’ve simply just got to accept the limitations of my intellectual capacity. I’ve reached my wits’ end and it now appears that the only viable solution will be to completely redesign the bento layout into a “theme” compatible with WordPress 1.5, or find an entirely new theme altogether. Hopefully I can get this all sorted out within the next couple of days, and the upgrade will ultimately be worth it. In the meantime, I hope you can bear with the current jacked-up state of this site. You have my sincerest apologies.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to go hit the sauce. . . .