Of course, now the databases aren’t quite right… I still get a server error when I try to import the database sql. Looks like I’ll be cutting and pasting all those posts.

Sigh.

There’s another problem too. On the blog page, there is “WordPress database error: Unknown column ‘link_count’ in ‘where clause’ SELECT * FROM wp_categories WHERE cat_ID > 0 AND link_count > 0 ORDER BY cat_name ASC” whatever that means.

I can’t seem to add categories through the blog admin… so back to the WordPress Forum and PhpAdmin.

The power of the forum is big, too. They should take a look at the long posts at WordPress on how unhappy people are with the lack of any Yahoo WordPress support. There is even a call to remove Yahoo hosting from the list of recommended sites for WordPress installations.

Whoever was in charge of setting it up at Yahoo should just script in the updates, too. I am sure that the WordPress people would be very helpful (they rock, generally) and they could also consult with DreamHost and BlueHost on how to do it. I’m guessing it would only be a couple of hours a month or something like that. Small investment, big return.

A status page on their feature requests, and a page to request features directly would be nice too! I just think it’s amazing that there is no way to communicate with any decision-maker on this issue. The customer care people at Yahoo have been great, but they know nothing about WordPress, have no way of finding out about the status of feature requests, and are left dangling with no information for a customer in this kind of situation. That operator at Yahoo corporate, though – that was really uncalled for. She was just nasty. Ah, well.

Thanks to the lovely resource posted by Ray (above), I’ll try again tomorrow to update the blog at work. I think they should pay him for that, and add it to their help pages! There is no way that even the above-average small business owner would know to try the things that he suggests.

Here at my own domain, I’m very happy with Dreamhost.

I find it amazing who many companies still underestimate the power of a blog entry that reports about the bad experience a user has made.