A brief technical update
A couple of small technical notes:
I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1. I had been on version 2.5 for a long time and resisted upgrading because of a previous botched attempt. Today, for some reason, I decided to go for it, after consulting with a local guru. Success! It worked! I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plug-in, which I’d recommend to anyone. W00t!
On the (slight) downside, my comment counts aren’t working correctly on the Broadcasting Brain homepage. They look like they all say 0 comments, which is incorrect. (I use the DISQUS commenting system on this blog, by the way.) However, if you click on any of the permalinks for the blog entries, the comments are all there. Weird. Anyone got any ideas?
EDIT: OK, the comment counts appear to be working now. Go figure.
That’s it for now.
Michael Rawdon:
I've been pretty aggressive about upgrading my WP installation, and it's been completely trivial except for when I moved to 2.5, which several plugins were not yet compatible with (at the time). I highly recommend just setting aside a couple of hours to upgrade to each new release. Most likely, you won't even need the time, but I think it beats the pain and/or worry of making one huge update like you just did.
10 May 2009, 2:46 pmMark Dykeman:
Previous updates had gone well, but my prior attempt got screwed up in the middle and screwed up some stuff, so I was gun shy. This one has gone quite well, so I'll try to stay current from now on.
10 May 2009, 2:57 pm