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Hello!

Updating the html file everytime I uploaded something was a pain in the neck so I decided to switch to WordPress. Now I don’t know if it is personal but every little script crashes on me. So did WordPress.

After I ran through the easy setup procedure with gigantic fonts (Hey what’s it with those fonts? This is not a kiosk for chrissake!) I logged in. And instead of my new, slick wp system what I saw was a whole page of an error message. It went like this:

[Data too long for column ‘option_value’ at row 1]
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = …

And following was a huge query. The weird thing is data type of ‘option_value’ column is longtext, which should theoretically be enough for an encyclopedia. I googled and found this bug report on WP website which didn’t even suggest a solution.
Anyway with a little research I learned all this fuss was about showing me news I didn’t need about WordPress, on my dashboard page. I installed the Dashboard Options Plugin which lets me turn off that feature. Does the trick.

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