Had a client with a WordPress blog, using PageNavi. It suddenly broke, badly – pagination worked for specific categories, but not for the main feed (eg, index/landing page which shows all posts), or for the archives. It started off with late pages (in the 18+ range) returning page not found errors, and progressed to the point where the second page started showing the same.

Searching for info on PageNavi is like herding cats – Google will give you nothing of use, but page after page of results insisting that you just have to use PageNavi. So, this is why I get the big cheezburgrz:

The solution ended up being simple. Under the ‘Reading’ settings, the ‘Blog pages show at most’ setting was set to a ridiculously high number. Despite this, the individual pages weren’t showing more than maybe 5 posts at a time. Reduced the number to 5, and suddenly, pagination via PageNavi worked up to the final page.

So I’ve finally gotten around to finishing off Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino. The first opening, as seen above, is purely epic. It has a nice grounding effect with regard to the ridiculously brutal extreme that GSG took the ‘girls with guns’ theme to – the real-world images merging with the series’ theme is simply delicious. Il Teatrino mainly revolves around Triela, rather than Henrietta. Plot’s fairly decent; the only real hole is how cybernetically enhanced killing machines are capable of having issues dealing with a human assassin. Like the first season, Il Teatrino is filled with plenty of pure WTF moments – this time mostly revolving around the origins of the girls.

All in all a worthy successor to the first season. Then again, I’m a sucker for anything that takes an overly cutesy theme and twists it into something grim and dark. :p

In other news, I’ve gotten around to finishing the conversion from Drupal to WordPress. That was easy(tm). WordPress, frankly, owns the living crap out of Drupal in terms of running a blog. Granted, Drupal can do so much more, but, well – I’m running a blog here. WordPress > Drupal for this use case. The right tool for the job, and all that.

Still have some stuff to work out, mostly revolving around comments and image positioning in posts.