I’ve spent more than 2 weeks having website issues.  When DewLance switched from cpanel to a different system, webmail was no longer usable (gives and error that PHP needs to be atleast 7.3, even if you have it higher) and I couldn’t use Fileazilla (my preferred FTP program — it would say retriving files, then error to saying there was inactivity for 20 seconds).  I had support tickets in, but DewLance would not address my issue (they ignored the email issue and just said for ftp for hostname use evo.decentserver.com — which I had previously told them did not work)

Anyways, I started looking into a new host because I was fed up (also, I had made my sister an email on my website, and since you couldn’t access email, she had no access to it and she uses it for Instagram), after no reply what-so-ever, for over 10 days (the previous time took 8, yet support is supposed to be 24/7), I started migrating to a new host, so we’ll see how happy I’ll be there.

I register my domain name with NameCheap, so I looked into them for hosting. Initial year is cheaper than I paid DewLance, though renewals is a little more, but it’s Cpanel (which I like) and so far (officially ALL migrated, even with the emails) so very good.

NameCheap did 99% of the migration for me, so there are a few WP plugins I didn’t have before, but my pages/posts/photos/themes are all there!

I don’t always post on birthdays, but Happy Birthday Mom (she turns 69 today)

Happy National Cat Day
Darling, Frasier, Elijah, Pumpkin, Dabbie, Lizzie, Tink, Bandit, Harold, Chester, Maverick, Simba, Valravn, Panda and Sidious

I love my cirkul bottles I have for home, and I have a few: one plastic 22 ounce (my original), 2 32 ounce stainless steel (one is rose gold and the other is Chameleon), and a 40 ounce tumbler (bright pink).  With drinking from those, I do drink more water.

I wanted to drink more water at work, instead of buyinh 5 20 Mt. Dews every week (which I am a Dew girl, I LOVE my dew, but buying 5 a week adds up)

SO, I spent some money, ordering a stainless steel 22 ounce cirkul (to JUST be my work bottle), with matching lid, matching silicone shock sleeve and a few flavors to add to my stash.

My package came today — 2 days earlier than the original estimated delivery window began.

I love that Big Lots has been getting yarn (and good yarn to boot) in the repack boxes!  This time, this is what I got (all are marked at $3.99 but some rang in at $1.99 and some and even $2

Another good yarn day at Big Lots!  I bought a second skein of Bernat Maker Home Dec, and all 6 skeins O’Go Bernat….all for under $20!!!!!

Meet our newest friend, Simba!  He was a stray that’s been coming around, and tonight he moved in

Got my themes back to how they belong!  If I’d known the fix, I wouldn’t have deleted my themes and spent $99 on TemplateToaster, but we can’t go into the past.

I did, however, lose my past themes, thankfully I had a backup of last year’s themes, so these will be good for now

I found out it was the PHP verson that wasn’t letting my artisteer themes show. If I change down to 7.4, artisteer themes show as they always did, but any PHP version higher than 7.4 gives error.

So then, I thought to myself, HEY! I could just switch to 7.4, then I could use BOTH Artisteer and TemplateToaster (but then I loaded a theme I made in TT…..error-city. Below are screencaps, the first is the TemplateToaster theme with PHP version 7.4, the second is the same theme selected, but with PHP updated to 8.3

I had though I could keep both theme makers installed an use them both since I spent so much money on them.  (the full version of Artisteer was $129, but I have used it for yeeeeeeeeeeears, so I feel it’s made it’s cost worthy. I like the ease of use with it, though some features I wish it had.  With TemplateToaster, it’s full version is $99 (still on sale). It’s more complicated, but some of it’s stylizing is better than Artisteer.

I have 2 current issues with TemplateToaster:
Above and below the blog posts is the word Navigation and nowhere in WP’s dashboard is there a way to turn that off (nor is there something in TT’s program either)
Comments are not possible (the Dahboard for WP has commenting on, and themes not made in TT allows them, but in TT themes, if you click the [leave a comment] link, it just reload’s the post

Now with Artisteer, the themes show up the way they should (and I don’t have to go through the rigamarole of importing content just to not truly import (since it’ll import TT default pages not my pages, then reselect the blog posts to show instead of a static page), but my only qualm here is (aside from not truly liking having to downgrade php verson) is how to access commenting. The visitor has to open the post page.   [Footnote: while typing this, I googled a way to add comments in Artisteer themes, I may have fixed it!!!!! If  my thinking’s right, I’ll keep both programs, yes, but Artisteer will be back to #1.  In hindsight, I did always want to try TT since Artisteer has NO customer support, and it can stay in my repertoire as a backup 😉

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