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Apr 23, 2008

Blog updated … and moved … whew !!!


Hello …
Been waiting to find time to upgrade my blog …
This week ... I finally managed to do it ...
I updated wordpress ... to version 2.5 ...
It wasn't as easy as I expected ... it never is ...
I had some broken links after the upgrade ...
Had to manually fix them ... thats messed up ...
I've mixed feelings about this latest version ...
When you first login ... its amazing ...
The admin area is well done ... its really nice ...
The dashboard is really kewl ... and makes sense ...
I like the new stats feature built right in ...
I also found a liked the fullscreen mode ...
What i did not like was ... media management ...
Everything was ajax'ed and changed ...
I still dunno my way around most of it ...
Hell ... I had to reupload most of my images ...
Just to get my thumbnails to work ...
May be I need some time getting used to it ...
Also ... I changed my hosting ...
This blog was previously hosted on site5.com ...
My new host is the Grid Service at MediaTemple ...
It all the rage these days ... with positive reviews ...
Let me know how this blog works for you ...
If its unusually slow or anything like that ...
I'd also like you to drop in a comment ...
If you find any broken links ... thanks ...
And a call for help goes out to the local IT crowd ...
If you've managed to get lightbox working in 2.5 ...
Please let me know how ... thank you ...
Laterx ...

5 comments:

pissedoff said...

Wow! what a wonderful idea! moving the Blog! Ive just got to move my blog as well!excellent!

(this is an homage to your blog readers. See bulhaa, .mini , trainer.. i beat you to this!! )

andhu said...

blog looks the same. speed seems OK. where have you been all this time :)

admin said...

pissedoff::
you at it again aren;t you ...?? though i admit i enjoy your sarcasm ... u really have to learn to be polite a bit ...

andhu::
thanks ...

James said...

Strange, I had no problems upgrading to WordPress 2.5, the only problem I had was with the Lightbox plugin not using the title tag/description from the uploaded image boxes in WordPress, which I had a friend fix for me anyway but other than that the LightBox plugin worked for me.

I agree with you on the 'media management' part it seems to be a few extra steps to upload images and edit the properties and the thumbnails are a bit irritating.

admin said...

hello james ...
yeah ... lightbox doesnt seem to play nice with 2.5 intall ...
and i dont have a friend who'd fix it for me ... hehe :P
so am gonna try this ...
http://www.m3nt0r.de/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php?file=http://www.m3nt0r.de/devel/wp-lightbox07.zip
hope this wud work ... fingers crossed ...
thanks for the comment ...

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