Although I generally try to eschew cargo-cult programming, perhaps I shouldn’t look at this gift-horse too closely. Besides, I just read my BSP’s (Blog Service Provider (-;) support forum, and there have been some other glitches on the shared server where my account is located. Maybe the server was just having a bad evening.

If I had to guess, I’d say it was my failing to deactivate the plugin before updating it that caused the annoyance. This is an excellent plugin, by the way. I guess it just goes to show—nothing can ever be completely foolproof, because fools (like yours truly) are so ingenious.

Ta!

I was running an earlier version, and it worked perfectly. I didn’t see the “blank page” issue until after uploading and activating the new version. Come to think of it, I don’t think I deactivated the old version before uploading the new one … my bad!

I’ll give it another go: since I completely deleted it from my WordPress installation, maybe it will work more smoothly the second time around. I’ll update my WP install first: I don’t remember having done that yet.

You see, I just tried to access the homepage, and I got nothing—a competely blank window. I asked myself, “What was the last thing did I do on this account” … and realized that it was uploaded the PHP page to which you’ve linked above. I fired up Dreamweaver, deleted the file and, lo and behold, my blog is now running as if nothing were the matter.

I added Gatekeeper was a prophylactic measure—I’m not well known, which has afforded me the leisure to play without worry of comment-spamming. Do you have any thoughts on the matter? (Oh, and I decided to comment here first before writing a nasty-gram on my blog about it … even though that isn’t my style, either.)

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