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–c.

So here we are running under WordPress 2.2. I must say the upgrade process was remarkably hassle-free. Much more arduous was the process of upgrading my theme (Veryplaintxt) to its latest version, then retro-fitting all the little customisations I’ve made.

Still, it’s done now. As you were.

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So I haven’t done the WordPress upgrade yet. Yesterday I noticed that the theme I use had a newer version out, so I upgraded that instead. This will account for any slight differences noticeable from yesterday.

I’m hoping to get the actual WordPress upgrade done today some time, though this is subject to having spare time around work stuff, so it may or may not happen.

As you were.
–c.

I’m going to upgrade my WordPress installation sometime soon, possibly today. This might mean things break horrifically.

Hopefully not, of course, but well… we’ll see.

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“Unergy“.

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“Fungineer“.

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That’s much better. The huge Archive list in the sidebar is now replaced with a nice calendar layout, and the almost-as-huge list of categories has been converted to a dropdown box. I really do like WordPress.

To answer Andy’s question in the comments to the previous post, the back end is of course PHP. The hosting is provided by the really quite good EdoHosting and provides PHP, Perl, MySQL, loads of storage, and masses of traffic allowance. And a nifty control panel to control it all and in the darkness bind it. Very reasonable prices too.

If you go, tell them I sent you!

–c.

Well, I quite like this new look.

Since moving to WordPress, I haven’t had time to redesign the thing so it’s a standard WordPress theme shoved straight in, and having tried out  roughly 5 bajillion themes, this was the one I liked the most. I like the faux-newspaper look and the typography is pretty good for the web – bearing in mind you basically have 5* font choices for websites, it’s things like line-height, letter-spacing and use of case that make the difference, and I think this theme uses all of those tools well.

There’s a couple of things I need to do to be happy with it though. For one thing, my blog posts go back as far as March 2003 (at which time I was running on Greymatter) and therefore the Archive list over there in the sidebar is very long. This needs converting to a calendar-type view to take up less space, which I’m sure is very easy in WordPress. I just haven’t had time to look at it yet.

Then I shall bung into the sidebar a Flickr badge and my last.fm recent tracks feed to give the thing some personalisation, and following that it will be time to add some WP pages containing some of the content that I dropped when I moved to WP – basically an about page, some stuff about the band and my music.

Then that will be it for now. I may change the theme somewhere down the line to suit my needs better – perhaps using sIFR headlines or something natty – or I may not.

So there you go.
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