Solar Flare Upgrades to Wordpress 1.5
Well if you’ve visited the site in the last two days you may have experienced all sorts of weirdness. Thats because I’ve been upgrading the blog software from WordPress 1.2 to Wordpress 1.5. The actual core upgrade went remarkably smoothly and took maybe 20 minutes. Whats take a little longer is fixing some of the extra plugins that I use and adjusting to the new template system.
I also took the opportunity to further tweak the design. I’m particularly pleased with the new expandable Categories menu and the more streamlined archives pages that they take you to. Notice that the blog now officially comes under a Creative Commons License, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while.
My comment spam blockers have been upgraded yet again and we’ll see how well they do this time out. Less and less has been getting through I’m pleased to say.
Finally please let me know if anything is broken. Right now the only problem I’m aware of is the Mail To Friend link which broke during the upgrade and I’m still trying to figure out what the problem is.
Eoghann Irving is amongst other things the creator and Editor of Solar Flare. He has a life long interest in all forms of science fiction and fantasy and a pressing need to share this interest with anyone who will listen. Find out more at his personal website eoghann.com..
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
James
Does that categories menu come “out the box”? I checked out the new 1.5 features and they sound pretty good.
Feb 21st, 2005
Eoghann
Unfortunately no, I’ve hardcoded the categories menu I’m using now. Its not an ideal arrangement and I’m trying to figure out a way that the javascript could be combined with the built in WordPress category links to generate it.
Feb 21st, 2005
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