My wife, owner of Fit Perfect, wanted a new site. Being my wife, there was no budget except for a steady supply of tea and snacks. There was also a deadline of ‘yesterday, please!’.

So WordPress it was then. The Notorious theme from Theme Forrest seemed to do the job. It’s always hard to tell as there’s rarely a list of examples of the theme being used in real life. Hence why I thought I’d post this.

Have a look at the Fit Perfect site first.

Here’s what I found:

• I bought the domain and hosted it as a sub domain on an existing hosting package. I pointed the DNS entry to the sub domain. All good. Except it caused all sorts of issues with WordPress’ uploader. Uploading images and plugins into the root etc. In the end, wiped everything and did a frest install of WordPress. Annoyingly, it fixed it without really knowing why. I suspect I’d clicked something important along the way that proved fatal. Ho hum.
• The theme uses an ‘appearance widget’ called OptionTree. Never used it before but it installed itself and is a central control panel for the main theme settings like homepage sliders, footers, fonts, colours or contact pages. It was hard work figuring out what OptionTree took care of and what the page templates did but all makes sense now. You’ll wonder how you did without it before.
• The only real confusion was how to add images to the blog and page template headers. You do it by setting them as the Feature Image in the bottom right of the WordPress page editor. It’s important to click the ‘set as feature image’ link in the upload preview popup, not the ‘add to OptionTree’ link. But when you add images to the posts themselves or add images into the OptionTree widget itself, you have to use the ‘add to OptionTree’ button. Confusing at first but makes sense I guess.
• The contact form still has a little issue, but it may be Googles problem. I’ve mapped the emails from Fit Perfect so I can pick them up via Gmail. The contact emails show up in every other mail client… except Gmail. Must be some top-level filtering going on that isn’t .
• Any problem I do have seem to replied to pretty smartly on the forum on the Gorilla Themes site. Which is reassuring.

So pretty painless so far. Hopefully this may help you if you’re thinking of using the theme. I’d certainly recommend it.

Just installed the iPhone OS 3.0 GM seed file onto my iPhone 3G from my iMac. I’m part of the iPhone Developers program so the ‘seed’ means ‘pre-release’, as the official update isn’t due until the 17th June or so. So slightly excited and nervous just in case something went wrong.

So, initially all went well. Process was something like this…

1. Download the .dmg disk image
2. Open it to view the .ipsw file
3. Fire up iTunes, select the iPhone
4. VERY IMPORTANT: **Backup the phone** You may need the backup data later!!!
5. Option-click (alt-click) the ‘restore’ button
6. In the dialogue box, locate the .ipsw file
7. Wait for it to do its thing and restart the phone
8. Restarted iTunes… PROBLEM!!

The iPhone had a ‘connect to iTunes’ diagram on it’s screen and wouldn’t go any further. Like so…

Restarted iTunes then it threw an error…

“We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (-9807).”

This can happen with the iTunes store and keychain errors, so I repaired my keychain. No change to the error though.

The iPhone was visible intermittently in iTunes but had no options or content listed under the icon, even right-clicking it just displayed ‘Eject’. Tried restarting both Mac and iPhone. No joy.

Finally tracked it down to a permissions thing. Luckily, I had a few user accounts set up on my iMac, so I logged out of mine and into another. If you don’t have them, then set one up from the System Preferences/Accounts panel. Fired up iTunes in the other account and the iPhone sprang to life! Yay!

Then I logged into the main user account again, fired up iTunes again and everything worked.

I then noticed my data hadn’t actually migrated back during the update (apps, prefs, photos etc.). Thank god for that backup I just did (see above). So I then restored to the backup. This restores the data, not the OS, so I still have OS 3.0 etc.

I then had to manually synced the Applications back (as I had them set to manually sync anyway) and it finally looks like it was supposed to!

Had a quick play and all my emails are there, text messages intact, contacts, ringtones, apps etc. Had to move my apps around the screen manually to tidy them up but apart from that all good.

Hopefully this won’t happen to the public release but hope this helps if you do need it.

:: STOP PRESS ::

Just found this entry that may help. If you’ve got Little Snitch running on your Mac, you may be seconds away from the answer!