We’re back but Gertie still needs to install some server modules and things, so some of my usual WordPress plugins aren’t working yet (and caused errors which you might have seen before I deactivated them) but mostly the site should be working as normal.

We did lost some content – namely some behind-the-scenes FTP re-arranging I’ve been doing and the screencaps from 4.19 Pictures of You and 4.20 The Originals. Rather than wait for Gertie to restore, which could take time because there are a dozen or more people in the same situation, I’ve decided to just reupload the caps myself because it’ll just take a couple of hours. So they’ll be up later today, along with caps from this weeks episode.

I’m going on a hiatus for 1-2 weeks, due to personal, health-related reasons. During that time, I’ll deal with any server issues and problems and script updates as normal should there be any, but all other things will be on hold.

I have cleaned up the Media section from all spam that I could find. Unfortunately, phpmotion being a spam magnet these days it was run over by it (over 12 ooo spam blogs, 2000 spam video comments and smaller number of other spam, including video spam) that it was impossible for me to go through it one by one, so we might have lost some legit comments too. 

The gallery is open again!

All the images that had the original unmarked version left has been restored with that one, and I also generated higher quality thumbnails.

In the other news… the holidays being over, I changed themes both here on the main site and the gallery to regular ones. You’ll also notice a lot of the pages here on the main site have been rearranged. I added in the Contact Form which I noticed wasn’t working.

About affiliates… I went through our affiliates as I added them in the affiliates management script I always use, and removed everyone who wasn’t currently linking back to The Vampire Diaries Online. If your site was in maintenance mode when I tried to check you out, you’re still listed as you were before and I’ll recheck you at a later date  

Also note, if your site was previously listed as Family (most likely because you’re one of the previous owners of this site) you’re now listed as Elite Affiliate (as long as you’re linking back to us), because I’ll be using the Family category for my own sites because that’s what I usually do. 

I’ve upgraded the gallery to the latest stable release.

Hi, Ariane the owner of The Vampire Diaries Online here! I’m currently downloading a full backup of the site to my computer, and doing some behind the scenes maintenance.

I have also already merged the Spoiler Blog back to the main site. So in the future, all things The Vampire Diaries will be posted right here on the main site.