I’ve upgraded numerous plugins recently and not had an issue. However, this morning I was attempting to upgrade cforms and a few of Lester Chan’s plugins and they failed.
Unfortunately I also discovered that when the automatic plugin upgrade fails, it removes the plugin completely from the list of available plugins….and also deletes the directory. [...]

I’m working on a theme and I don’t have access to my local server right now.  The regular theme will be back up in a little while…

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There are times when I’m designing a theme that I just want to beat Internet Explorer to death with a sledge hammer.
For those of you who are still using Internet Explorer, download Firefox and see what the web is really supposed to look like.
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Last year I created Wordpress Mania because I really enjoy working with the software and I thought that I’d have something to contribute. As sometimes happens, I just didn’t have time to really work on the site and keep it updated. Not to mention that at the time, there were tons of people out there that had infinitely better design skills, coding skills, and working knowledge of WordPress…