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Tag: Spring 2025

  • Troubleshooting

    Aye yi yi was this frustrating. For an assignment I had to break my website and then troubleshoot it. I have zero experience troubleshooting, so this was not fun. To break my DKC training website, I changed both the site URL and WordPress URL from “dkctraining.lexigudgel.net” to different variations of that. The reason this messed […]

  • The first final of the season…

    I finished my last mock consultation, kind of like the first final of the semester. Fortunately, this was not nearly as stressful as a real final. It was pretty much all troubleshooting, and I felt like a genius.

    May Day had an issue with the safety certificate for her website, being that she just… forgot to verify her identity as a human being. I was so fast to figure out the problem and give a solution for it and I felt like I was a genius for actually knowing how to do that.

    This was definitely the most prepared for a mock consultation I felt this semester. Things felt easy, and when I ran into something I was unfamiliar with / didn’t really understand, I had a relatively easy time figuring out what had to happen to fix the issue. Block themes… why are you evil…

    I am currently one studio training (video) and a name-tag away from full-fledged consultancy1

    1. this is not a real word 🙂 ↩︎

  • 3D Printing Take 2

    Well, here we are again. After the Disaster That Shall Not Be Named, I had to reprint my nametag. Luckily, I wasn’t starting from scratch–just fixing what I already had. After giving it some thought, I figured out the issue: it wasn’t just that my nametag was small overall, but the proportions were messed up […]

  • I’m Free!!!

    I just had my final mock consultation! I think it went quite well, I was able to figure out most of the troubleshooting issues myself, minus the one about block themes (thanks Adi!). I felt like this time around I was most prepared and therefore most confident. I felt like I communicated well, although the first time around I could have asked more questions at the beginning. I feel like my next step is to allow the student to drive the consultation a bit more. I also think playing around with WordPress more will help me in the sense that I will just be overall more knowledgeable.

    It is crazy to think that my next consultation will be real, it’s also a bit scary. But I do feel I have been prepared well and will be able to do a good job. As of now I am just two studio trainings away from being a full-time consultant, so I will update you then!

    And finally, my sign off that I forgot to keep doing like 3 blog posts in. See you later, and as always, stay creative.

  • Getting Into the Third Dimension

    I finally completed my nametag! I had a lot of fun in Tinkercad, I found it easy to use while still allowing for a wide range of creations. At first, I did not like how you had to grab the little cube in the top left corner to navigate around the space, but once I found the shortcut of holding control and grabbing the screen, my navigation became much more efficient. Although I did not use it for my final design, I had a lot of fun with the draw tool. Here are some of the other nametags I brainstormed using the draw tool:

    Eventually I landed on a clapperboard for my nametag, and I created that in Tinkercad. I was of course inspired by my love for horror movies and wanted to make something to honor that. I wanted to use a more interesting font than what they had to offer so I had to do some research on how to import fonts into Tinkercad. At first the sites I was looking at were telling me to use these other installed applications but that got supper complicated. I ended up finding a site called text2STL that allowed you to type something, chose a font, and then download that as an STL file to upload to Tinkercad. They even had an option to upload your own font, so I found a horror movie looking font that was still readable and translatable into 3D and uploaded it. I was happy with the results and that I was able to find a way to customize the font on my own. Here was the final design:

    Next it was time to print. I did my 3D printing training with Rusul and felt pretty confident, but I was still a bit nervous going in. I was kind of worried I would like break the printer somehow or mess up my whole thing and not be able to complete it. Luckily, neither of those happened, and my print I was able to print successfully! I had to add stops on mine to change the colors and I was able to do that, but it was kind of a tedious process, I am maybe wondering if there is a quicker way to determine where you want your print to pause. I also added supports, but I think my design definitely did not need them, so it just made it kind of difficult to clean up at the end. Overall, I am super happy with the final print, it is the perfect size, and I think it looks really cool. Here is the final name tag!!!!:

  • My FIRST 3D Printing Attempt

    Every DKC consultant is tasked with creating their own nametag, and since I’ve never used a 3D printer before, I was excited to learn something new. First I had to get started in Tinkercad, which is one of the softwares the DKC recommends for 3D prints. I found it pretty user-friendly, and I especially appreciated […]

  • 3D Printing: 4/16/25

    • What do you think of Tinkercad?
      • I have very mixed emotions about Tinkercad. While it is good for beginners, I find that its way of moving objects around can be quite annoying. I think I would prefer to work with blender for most projects, but for more simple projects I would work with Tinkercad for its simplicity. It has its pros and cons. However, I love the naming of files. It is very entertaining(until you have to actually find it).
    • What challenges did you face with 3D Printing?
      • This print is the worst thing I have ever had to deal with. It had made me want to rip my hair out. From things not coloring correctly in Prusa (I had to turn down the plane value of the fill bucket), to the filament breaking, to the printer deciding I have to select the color and me not knowing what it is planning to print, this nametag has been a pain in my butt.
    • Where did you draw inspiration from?
      • I really like bats and vampires so I took inspiration from that. Part of it was just me messing around. Fun Fact: the clouds are actually speech bubbles but I hid the points/
    • A picture of your name tag to receive both Shannon’s and Edmund’s approval.
      • yes! yay!

  • Cloning works!

    Our task was to break a website, I definitely succeeded. The first step was to change the WordPress and site addresses, which i did. I then found that I had no way of accessing my website. Oh no!

    404 Not Found message on blank background

    I did some searching after that. Essentially just googling the error message it gave me. “Not Found. The requested URL was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an error document to handle the request.”

    The first site I found was NameHero, with their guide: Five ways to fix error 404.

    The guide was not particularly helpful to me, it seemed targeted toward people trying to access websites that did not belong to them. I had to find a different guide.

    My next (and final discovery was this Cloudways guide. I read through it, and decided the easiest solution to my problem might be to clone the older site, see if it would load properly. I did exactly that and, lo and behold, it worked!! Welcome back to the world: dgst101.acfolio.org!

  • Troubleshooting: 4/16/24

    Screenshot of an error screen warning user that the site they are trying to visit is not private.
    A screenshot of a page saying "Web Page Blocked! you have tried to access a web page which belongs to a category that is blocked."
    • Search terms you used while googling
      • “how to undo url change dooo”
    • Sites that you found (and whether you were helpful or not)
    • Any steps you took to try to fix it (even if those steps didn’t work)
      • The first thing that I did was look up what the issue was. I made sure to specify DoOO since it may be different for other programs. After I did that, I reopened my admin site from the DoOO dashboard, opening my site as the most basic version of it, without any theme. I then went to general settings and changed the site back to its original domain. This did not work at first because I had forgotten to change the .com to a .net address, so that made me nervous. Once I realized that mistake, I repeated my steps to get back to the admin page and fixed it, correcting my site.
    • Anything else that was part of your experience troubleshooting
      • I found this one fairly simple if I am being honest. I had more of an issue when my site broke the first time by overriding my backup, though I think that was partially due to me being much newer to WordPress as a whole.

  • Breaking My Site

    I surprised myself with how quickly I was able to fix my site, and it was mostly because I found a very useful article. I started by breaking my site which led me to this page:

    I started by kind of scoping it out, I found that if I retyped in my url it would correct it to the broken one. I also found that I could still acess my cpanel just not wordpress. I figured I needed to rechange the url, but would need some back way to get there. I looked around the applications on cpanel but did not really find anything that seemed obvious.

    I decided it was time to start looking on google, at first, I found an article, but it was assuming you still had access to wordpress which I did not. I then used the words “can’t access wordpress dashboard because wordpress url does not match subdomain”. This led me to the following article: https://wp-me.com/cant-access-wordpress-after-changing-site-url/. It gave me two options, one, edit the code, although it generally advised against that, or to edit it through php admin. I followed the five simple steps and got my site up and running again in no time. All in all, I was able to complete the activity in less than 15 minuets which I am pretty proud of, but most of the thanks goes to the article which was super helpful. I was also proud that I had deducted I would have to edit the url through another application in cpanel, I just needed help with the specifics. I also did not read the blog post instructions and did not take a screenshot of my broken site, so I re-did all of it and fixed the problem by memory this time.