This website was created in its current metamorphises by volunteer Michael Cronin. Before he disappeared ‘gently into that good night’ he struggled to teach me everything I would need to manage in his absence. He taught me how to post articles, add photos, embed video and create links. I eventually figured out how to fiddle with the widgets in the margin and became tentatively able to do most of what needed to be done.
He didn’t teach me how to do an upgrade though.
When you do an upgrade you first back up the site, then disable all the fancy bits, then do the upgrade, then put the bits in one at a time to see what’s broken and what needs to be fixed. WordPress 2.9.2 is available now and it could do sweet, beautiful, fast things for us, but i am still squeaking by with WordPress 2.5. The challenge is that every time the server updates, we run the risk of losing content because it no longer translates to these wordpress dark ages.
The world is a big place, and at least 700 people in the world read this website every day. I’m hoping that a few of you will know wordpress well enough to be undaunted by this job, or have a son or a girlfriend who knows someone that might help. Write me if you think you can help us help beavers. Media makes a difference and you could help us catch up to 2010 gracefully. Then we can help even more cities live effectively with beavers.
