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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.7

January 16, 2007 in Blog, Technology | No comments

Wordpress announced a security update and it’s recommended that everyone with 2.0.6 and below to get the update.

I decided to go for it since the upgrade patches a potential security vulnerability. The upgrade itself took about 15 minutes and most of the time was spent backing up and loading the new files up the server. I do wish that the Plugin Admin screen had “Deactivate All” and “Activate All” functions so that I didn’t have to manually deactivate/activate each plugin during the upgrade.

I took the chance to also upgrade the WP Tiger Administration plugin to v3.0. This was a design overhaul and also fixed a couple of minor UI hiccups that the older version had on Wordpress 2. Nice.

I Get No Spam

January 8, 2007 in Blog, Technology | No comments

For some unknown reason, the number of spam comments rocketed overnight (nothing close to the 1,000,000 on Techcrunch.com of course) but thanks to the loveliness that is Akismet, my blog stays spam-free and lemony-fresh.

I know I’m just asking for it.

Upgrade Works

November 27, 2006 in Blog, Technology | No comments

I upgraded the Wordpress theme to the snazzy 4u-Hemingway theme from UtomBox recently.

I wished the theme would support widgets instead of what the author terms as “blocks” but I managed to get those working after a few tweaks here and there. I made a few small hacks before I was happy enough to leave it alone, including one tiny patch.

List of Plugins (in alphabetical order):

Move Reloaded

November 2, 2006 in Blog, Technology | No comments

The move to WordPress from my old MovableType blog is finally done. The initial install and import of my old entries took probably less than 15 minutes, thanks to Dreamhost’s One-Click Install feature. Very nice. I probably spent more time working on the Rewrite rules in the .htaccess file to make sure that links to the old blog address redirects properly.

I was running a really old version of MT, and having to rebuild pages after template changes was a pain. I couldn’t upgrade because I was running multiple blogs and MT’s license change at the time* (I remember the huge uproar it created amongst bloggers) meant that I wouldn’t be able to upgrade without paying.

I’ve been wanting to switch over to WordPress ever since, but was just too lazy tied up to do so. I decided to bite the bullet this week and made the switch, and really, it was alot easier than I thought. The import worked mostly fine but there was some problem with the embedded images from Zooomr. I had to get the image links fixed but no biggie. Other than that, WordPress is a joy to work with. Changing themes was just too easy; I couldn’t stop trying out new ones.

Hi, I’m ping and I’m a Theme-a-holic. :)

Talking about Zooomr, they had more than a spot of server trouble lately. I’m utterly sympathetic, having gone through a really bad hardware failure situation at work recently myself. Everything’s back online now, and to make things up to their users, Kristopher and team gave out lifetime pro accounts Pro 4 Life to their users who signed up before the troubles started. To top that off, they also increased bandwidth for normal users to 100MB/month and 4GB/month for pro accounts.

Zooomr is still giving out free 1-year Pro accounts to bloggers. So go get one already!

* [Update] I just checked out MT’s latest pricing and it seems that things have indeed changed. The MT Personal license now offers free usage for personal use, with no restrictions on the number of users or blogs. SixApart appears to be focusing on the enterprise blogging space, which is probably a much smarter move.

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