#wordpress

So — funny story.

I was walking down the road the other day, and boom! my optimix.dev website on Digital Ocean stopped working. Shocking, right?

Ok, it wasn’t a complete surprise…I was sending some commands to the server.

What do you mean, “Was it serious?”. I was just tweaking it a bit, you know.

Alright, I guess you could call an Ubuntu 17–22 OS upgrade “serious”. I mean, black holes and neutron stars are certainly serious. Are OS upgrades really on the same level? I suppose it’s all very subjective.

Backup. Backup. That word sounds familiar, but if you keep repeating it, it starts to sound strange and unfamiliar. Backup. Fun fact — this concept of repetition causing a word or phrase to lose its meaning for the listener temporarily is called semantic satiation.

Oh well.

I’d mentioned earlier that I had abandoned (rather, left frozen) my WordPress website optimix and moved over to writing here instead. Today, I wandered back to see how things looked (much like one visits an old town that they had lived in previously). I realized that something was wrong, equations that I had typeset in LaTeX using the KaTeX plugin weren’t rendering; in fact, they were throwing an ugly error. I looked further into my WordPress admin page to discover that auto-updates were unavailable for the plugin. Then I headed over to the plugin page on the WordPress website, to learn that the plugin had been “closed” (whatever that meant) as of July 9th, 2024, because of some “Guideline Violation”. What the heck!?

KaTeX Plugin

Fortunately, it turned that the already-installed plugin was actually working just fine, all I had to do was unblock JavaScript in my browser (which I’d turned off by default via NoScript and forgotten about). For now, though I don’t get further updates for the plugin, it continues to function correctly.

I am still curious to know what that supposed “Guideline Violation” is.