While I was in Wales connectivity was bad, so I had time to keep up with security on AoB Blog and Then Dig, but not here. This coincided with the discovery of a major security flaw in a plug-in. For the past month or so I’ve been looking at how to fix the theme without losing everything, but it seems that might not be an easy task, so instead I’ve started work on adapting the AoB template for other sites.

It’s a handy exercise in seeing what is effected by the hack and what isn’t, but it also means that visitors here will see things shuffling around or breaking for the next few days or weeks.

The Spirit of Aberystwyth (inspired after Instagram)

The move to Wales was less successful than I thought. Broadband was due on Aug 23, then August 31 and now October, sometime. It left me with very limited time to connect to the internet and keeping the work site ticking over was the priority. I’m back in England till either Sky or BT realise they can connect the house to the internet after all.

Over on AoB Blog, the new HTML5 theme is live. It intentionally looks like the old theme, but there are some obvious changes made. The customisation of SlideDeck was helped greatly by this page on CSS selectors from NetTuts and X:nth-child(n). It’s not sexily database driven, but it does the job. The theme was built from H5, a template from Digging into WordPress.

It’s been done a different way to usual, as I prefer to experiment with new themes here first. It’s less of a problem if something goes horrifically wrong here. But for various reasons that’s no been possible. I’m now looking seriously at reworking the theme for Then Dig, as that site has a few flaws. Something I’d like to add to Then Dig is a version of the Photo Search that I’ve set up at AoB Blog.

I also have another project I’d like to kick out of the door before Christmas, so blogging here will probably be a little light for a while.

Oh, and seeing it’s the anniversary of the Voyager launch I’ve updated the post I wrote on space archaeology in 2006.