'After much trial and tribulation, which most of you have probably seen as we switched from the default theme back to our TechnoEsq theme almost 200 times, we have fixed the problems we were having. FYI, any of you bloggers who are thinking of upgrading to WordPress 2.8, WAIT! It seems 2.8 messed up our .htaccess file and hotlinking. What made it difficult to track down was that the other blogs run on our host, such as TechnoEsq.com/TrialVideos and TechnoEsqPresentations.com were working fine so we thought it was a WordPress 2.8 problem since none of those sites were updated to 2.8. The reason it appeared that was is because each of those have their own .htaccess file which was not modified in the update to 2.8.
Lesson learned? Don’t update WordPress for the first few months as Grant Griffiths, from G2WebMedia, suggests. Special thanks to Grant and Victor Medina of Jersey Estate Planning for their tireless help of Finis asking them to “please re-load the page” to see if changes were taking effect across the web and not just in his browser’s cache.