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I have just managed to come out of the other end of another WordPress minefield. WordPress 2.6 image captions. Being a natural healer, I am trained to search for the cause before embarking on a cure. I should have applied this rule to WordPress. Look around some of the recent posts, and you will see that the images now have a nice background and a caption underneath, and they are aligned in the post as I desire.

This is part of the new whiter than white twodotsix version of WP. However, it didn’t work out of the box, and I was too keen to mess around with the CSS to get it right, before realising it wasn’t that. How did I know? After a fair deal of frustration, I did a vanilla install of 2.6 with the theme I am using here, Simplr. Everything was fine. My upgrade hadn’t gone well. I removed completely the wp-includes and wp-admin folders and replaced them with fresh files. Better. I disabled all plugins. Perfect. I enabled them again one by one until I reached the culprit; wp-typography 1.6. I can live without the plugin, I guess it will get upgraded sometime soon. Until then, enjoy the captions, which I am using to credit the owners of the photographs I use!