Seems like many users of WordPress received a nasty surprise when upgrading from an older version to 2.8.  While looking for answers I found plenty of bad advice.  Even more annoying are the WordPress mods rushing to close discussion on threads working to discover a solution.  Luckily, I found a fix through trial and error.  As for the cause, the only blog of mine with this error used an auto-update plugin instead of the new built in WordPress auto update function.  It installed WordPress without installing all the required files.

You may experience the following symptoms:

The buttons on the visual editor are missing.
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For the 2nd year in a row the Turnip clan visited the Poconos Great Wolf Lodge in Pennsylvania .  You can read all about my first trip there in my previous Great Wolf Lodge review.  This year my aim was to maximize our family fun time.  For the most part I think we succeeded!

My boys are ages 5 and 7, both in the autistic spectrum.  Of the group only I can swim, so lakes and rivers were out of the question.  We needed a quick safe vacation during a window of opportunity when everyone was healthy.  This meant relatively short notice [...] Continue Reading…

Former Entrecard Mod Lee Doyle received a 4 year jail term for sexually abusing a young child.  Mr. Doyle was an organizer for the group “Fathers 4 Justice ” and ran the now defunct leedoyle.com, along with the “U-Drop/ I Follow” Entrecard group.  (an idea which he admitted to stealing)   As for why he received the maximum sentence: “Having sexually abused the youngster, he denied any wrong-doing, leaving the child to face the traumatic consequences of giving evidence in court.” 

Judge David Ticehurst told Doyle: “You were convicted on clear evidence and the aggravating feature is that your victim was very young”.

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Lyndi of Nice2all.com sent me this sexy picture from the wilds of Africa.   Be sure to check out her recent article on CMF Ads or view a few other pictures she took.  Thanks Lyndi for being such team player!