Wordpress 2.3 Update
Yeah, figured it was finally time to update to the latest wordpress. After enjoying all the enhancements on the wordpress blogs we use at work, I thought they might encourage me to work on my blog some more.
The update wasn’t quite as scary as I thought it would be. Its basically the same as the famous 5 minute install, except you copy over the existing install instead of a clean directory and run the updater script instead of the installer.
It did hose my sidebar, but I knew that was coming. I had hacked that code quite a bit to put in all my offsite widgets (delicious, digg, flickr, my runlog, etc.) I’m gonna recode those things into my own custom widgets, so I don’t shoot myself in the foot again.
I’d also like to delve into a look and feel update, but I don’t know if I’m gonna have the time and energy to get anywhere in the near future. Probably go evolutionary instead of revolutionary, I guess. Stay tuned.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Work smart, not hard. Someone already has a nice del.icio.us widget:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/delicious-for-wordpress/
Bam, that was easy enough.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:40 am
flick-ity-flack, now flickr is back. many thanks to the flickr plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flickr-rss/
October 14th, 2007 at 11:49 am
dig it man, my diggs are back thanks to this handy plug-in:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digg-widget/
really starting to like the widget config interface. for my next trick, I’ll make my own plugin for my running log.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
alright, enough already, you’re saying. ok, this is the last one; last.fm that is. it shows the album covers for things I listed to recently via last.fm.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lastfm-records/