Nude World Order

So this plugin was designed by morons, apparently. It caches images forever, with no way to remove or update them. Arguably this is sort of generous… but heaven forbid you ever want to change any image on your website. They claim that deleting images or purging the cache is somehow “difficult technically”, but obviously it’s not, at all. Except for the fact that they’re morons.

Anyway, it seems the only way around this is to give the file a new name. But guess what, wordpress may also have been designed by morons and doesn’t make renaming files possible.

But fortunately, someone by the name of Milan Dinić was not a moron and wrote a nice little plugin for renaming files. That was three years ago, but it still seems to work. Thank goodness.

Anyway, if you see any filenames that start with something like fuckjetpack1-, now you know why.

In other news, I’m starting to lose patience with all this (could you tell?), so I’m just gonna turn the real theme on again and hope for the best. Worst that can happen is they ban me and I have to rebuild my site on some better host. That would be a pain, but so is getting stonewalled by these guys.

So the good news is my host’s tech support said my blog is now “running normally” (i.e. not overloading). The bad news is I’m still kind of in the dark about what was wrong before and what fixed it.

I guess we’re out of the danger zone, but questions remain. Like whether I can safely switch back to my old theme.  Over the next few days I’ll be trying to get things back to normal, but it’ll likely be a somewhat slow process.