Tag Archives: “Wordpress”
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1
I’ve upgraded the site to the latest version of Wordpress (2.5.1). I also converted the collation on the MySQL tables to UTF-8. I haven’t noticed any problems so far but if anyone notices garbled text, please let me know or post a comment.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
Sometime tonight or tomorrow I’ll be upgrading the site to the latest version of Wordpress so you may notice issues with website access during the upgrade. Chances are you won’t even notice, but this is just a heads up. I’m also making a couple of changes on the backend to lay the groundwork for a complete redesign sometime in the near future. I’ll also be recoding the XHTML/CSS and the Wordpress theme, changing the navigation, and moving all the static pages over to Wordpress Pages. There will be some visual changes, but nothing too dramatic.
MovableType Going Open Source
This is kind of a follow up to the Wordpress post I made a couple of days ago. Well recently, MovableType (MT), another blogging/CMS application in direct competition with Wordpress, announced a major new version (4.0) that would be completely open source. Note that Wordpress is already open source as well. This is a departure in that previously MT was only free for personal use and was limited in terms of number of users per installation. They also had paid commercial licenses and what not. A lot of people are talking about this and MT themselves spew a lot of marketing speak about how they’re doing this to empower bloggers, etc. But I really don’t think that’s the real reason.
I Wish Other Web Apps Were Built Like Wordpress
Wordpress really is a very well built piece of software. Wordpress is what I use for this blog. I’m working a new version of this site that will be completely managed using Wordpress as a CMS. Same thing for my business site. That’s how powerful Wordpress is. Development is very active and I love the theme system and the modular system of plugins. Everything just works and it works well. I often find myself wishing other open source projects were built the same way like ecommerce shopping carts or client billing software. Basically something that’s standards-based and is very extensible.