Finally, my blogs are on WordPress 2.5. Well, at least this one and my Davao blog. The others will follow soon, and, it won’t take me as much time as I’d feared. Thanks to my friend, I’m able to shift effortlessly to the latest version with the help of a very convenient plugin that automates WP upgrading.
So far, I haven’t run into any major problems with my themes or plugins being incompatible with WP2.5. There were minor stuff, like outmoded WP template tags embedded in the themes that I had to manually update.
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WordPress 2.3 at last! I’m talking about ALL my blogs running on WordPress — the 4 blogs that I personally author, my father’s Gospel Reflections, the blog aggregator, and several others that I maintain for other folks. Whew! But it really wasn’t all that painful. It took me just under an hour (including snacks & bathroom breaks) to upgrade all of those blogs to the latest version of this awesome blogging platform.
Ah, there’s one blog that I haven’t yet upgraded: MindanaoBloggers. The reason being, I’m not quite sure yet if the plugin that runs the Mindanao Blog Directory will function well in the WP2.3 environment. I have yet to do some test runs on that. Read on»
Two weeks ago, WordPress 2.3 was released, and now I’m contemplating on upgrading my blogs from their current WP2.2.2 version. Based on what I’ve read so far, WP2.3 promises to be an exciting development from previous releases — native support for tagging (for better SEO!), plugin ugrade alerts, and much more.
Matt, the founder of WordPress, held an upgrade party the day after they released the new version. For us WP die-hards and geeks, that sure sounds like a darned good excuse to get together and have a few brews! Read on»
I’m very pleased with myself right now. For one, I’ve been able to force myself to revive a dying blog of mine, Mission: 6-Pack Abs (http://sixpack.robilloblog.com). For months I’d neglected it (my last post was in late May), and it could’ve gone the way of the dodo, had I not decided to effect a major revamp.
Like Oprah or the Fab Five giving away home makeovers, a redesign is a sure way of rekindling your own interest in maintaining a blog. After a looong time procrastinating, I made myself face the hundreds of WordPress themes available and choose a new one for Mission: 6-Pack Abs. Fortunately, one sprung out and caught my eye. If you take a look at it, it is rather red all over… but I like it. And that’s the important part. You should like your own blog, or you just might get tired of it. So, after several hours (non-continuous, though) of tweaking and manipulating the codes and scripts — voilà! A blog reborn. Read on»
