A Very Bloggy Terrible Idea
Today’s terrible idea is from immediate personal experience. I installed the Wordpress plugins “Typogrify” and “Textile2” in an effort to beautify this humble site. I’ve become interested in typography in general and web typography in particular recently, and improving the look of my own site seemed to be the logical starting point.
Unfortunately, something went wrong, and preceding every double space (of the type used after the end of a sentence), was a weird character. It didn’t kill the site, but it’s embarassing, and it looks terrible. I’m still not sure exactly what happened, but I removed the offending modules. So, the terrible idea for today is installing modules whose code you don’t know on a live website.
In order to fully rectify the problem, it turns out I have to write a post (this post) in order to flush the main page’s cache and get rid of the weird characters. It seemed appropriate to make the post that would fix the problem a post about how I shoudln’t have had the problem in the first place.