Phew! I spent most of yesterday uploading, reloading and generally using bad words to scream at my computer because I had upgraded Wordpress to 2.5 and not made a copy of my existing blog (yes you can guess what happened, I lost the lot).

When I got the blog back up and running, my one favourite plugin - sociable bookmarking, wasn’t working.

It is a brilliant plugin but just wouldn’t work, It’s installed correctly and everything but just doesn’t like me.

So, after having hunted round, looking for help and generally getting more and more angry with myself I then realised that I simply hadn’t activated it correctly!!

Well, all’s well that ends well and as you can see it’s working fine now!

So, here are my 2 tips for today, if you are changing ANYTHING about your site, blog, whatever, ALWAYS ALWAYS BACK IT UP FIRST! I cannot stress that enough, fortunately I had only a few posts which I can get back by searching the google cache so it wasn’t to bad, but imagine if it was a year down the line…?

Second tip, if you’re having problems with a wordpress plugin, look at their plugin-directory for support, but specifically, if you want a good social bookmarking plugin I cannot recommend the sociable bookmarking tool enough!

ta ta for now

David