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Apr 05, 2008 I Blogging.
For the bloggers out there, Wordpress is out in version 2.5 as of a week ago. I just upgraded my own blog at Bluehost; pretty painless thing, however rather than deleting, I simply renamed wp-includes and wp-admin to include an _ / underscore, then copied the files across and touched on the upgrade.php file.
One issue was that the maintenance mode plugin didn’t let me go to upgrade.php, so I simply renamed the plugin directory and I was fine. Continue reading »
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Mar 09, 2008 I Blogging, Site News.
In an unexpected stint of house keeping, I decided to updated to a newer version of Wordpress - just using Bluehost’s auto update function. Now, whilst doing this I realised that my old template was getting old; the new version of the otherwise stunning Vistered Little theme was performing even slower than the last, so I set out on search for a new template.
I finally found Yichi’s Resurrection - which is fast performing and very beautiful. A couple of things were broken due to it not being a WP2.3 template, however when I got rid of the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin and replaced it with Reciprocity’s Configurable Tag Cloud - things were much better.
I also set up a twitter account, which looks like an interesting thingie - I will see how I go with it, on top of Facebook, Google Talk and other places to set my current status. 
For the bloggers out there, Wordpress is out in version 2.5 as of a week ago. I just upgraded my own blog at Bluehost; pretty painless thing, however rather than deleting, I simply renamed wp-includes and wp-admin to include an _ / underscore, then copied the files across and touched on the upgrade.php file.