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Upgrade successful

Jim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:52:58 +0000

Looks to me like the upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.1 was successful. Everything looks so shiny now

Still busy with my project, stupid head of the course can’t be arsed to sort out his timetable… brilliant.

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Upgrading Wordpress… expect downtime!

Jim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:17:43 +0000

If anything gets screwed up today, then that’s due to some boring maintenance work. I really needed to upgrade Wordpress as this site is stuck on version 2.3.x when it should really be on 2.6.x. I know for a fact my web hosts have kicked people for not upgrading software (security reasons.)

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Wordpress 2.5

Jim — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:26:20 +0000

There doesn’t seem to be long before the next major release of Wordpress — version 2.5. Originally planned for release on the 10th of March, it seems that Wordpress 2.5 is not far away. Looks like I might have an interesting couple of weeks (if I choose to ignore revision, which is bound to happen;) with the possible releases of Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Wordpress 2.5. For whatever reason the developers decided to ignore 2.4, I guess this was intended to make the release seem more important.

Wordpress 2.5 does feature major changes in the Dashboard and ‘Write’ pages, but nothing there really interests me. It will probably be easier to navigate, but I don’t find the current solution to be cumbersome. Here are the major changes:

Faster load times.
Multi-file uploads.
Customisable Dashboard
New “Media Manager” for images, audio, video, etc.
Built-in gallery function.
Built-in (and pluggable) Gravatars support.
One-click auto-update for plug-ins.
Reactivate plugins after a ‘Deactivate All Plug-ins’ action.
Tag management

Notice the one in bold? (I really hope you did, otherwise you might want to see an optician.) Yep, a built-in gallery! Now I don’t need to bother with setting up Gallery2, or any other Gallery plugin. Wordpress will have the function straight out of the box, except it doesn’t come in a box… So when the stable version of 2.5 is released, and Dreamhost get round to supporting it, I’ll happily move over for the gallery alone. The other features all sound nice (who doesn’t like faster load times?) but nothing else really sounds groundbreaking. I wonder how the many Gallery plug-ins will react, will we see some improvements being made to them, to warrant their installation? Or will they just die out (well, the Wordpress forks.)

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Cache seems to be acting up

Jim — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:23:37 +0000

Not sure how, but the cacheing seems to be weird. I might need to sort out the settings, I’ve lost a post thanks to it… and you might not even see this one for sometime…

Great!

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I really need to update this theme

Jim — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:18:24 +0000

I definitely need to do some more work on this site, but for now I am waiting on my domain name to spread across the internet. For one, does anybody keep this theme for longer than 5 minutes? Probably not, I may have to go against that trend (6 minutes here we come!) More plugins would be nice too, but most of them look better with a populated site, such as the archive and recent comments plugins.

Anyway, I do love this wysiwyg (wizzywig!) posting thing, makes Postnuke look around 10 years out of date. Didn’t the News Pro (is that even the name?) script have this is like 1997 or so?

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Mirror updated: Importing Postnuke to Wordpress the easy way!

Jim — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:37:03 +0000

This mirroring service of tech-rant has finally been updated. I found a very handy way for users to import their Postnuke, PHP-Nuke, or Joomla site/blog to a Wordpress blog (hosted on Wordpress.com) without any custom scripts. This method will keep all the sites categories (in fact it will update the Wordpress blog’s categories to use the same names as the originating site.)

To mirror, or import, a site to Wordpress from a CMS like Postnuke, you need to be on a host which allows you to create a sub domain, where you will install a ‘temporary’ or ‘buffer’ (if you like) Wordpress install. Now this allows you to import your Postnuke or Joomla site to the temporary Wordpress blog through an RSS feed, which in this case is your sites backend.php. Simply go to your site, right-clock your backend.php link and select download file. Now go to your temporary Wordpress site and go to ‘Manage’ then ‘Import’, you should choose ‘Import from RSS’ and in that menu select your downloaded backend.php.

By doing this you will have created a blog which has all your original sites posts and categories nicely imported across; now all you should need to do is go to ‘Export’ in the ‘Manage’ menu and export the blog as a Wordpress XML file, which can be imported to your Wordpress.com site.

Why Wordpress.com does not allow you to simply import an RSS file I do not know, but this workaround will do all the work for you without messing about with MySQL or any scripts.

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