Site Maintenance To Do List Today
Posted by Gwytherinn on Friday Sep 19, 2008 Under Aside
I checked out what this thing is I’ve been seeing everywhere lately - OpenID. It basically makes it easy to centralize one’s identity over a number of sites. While I’ve purposely made it difficult to comment on my site, I’d feel a lot more comfortable letting those who have established blogs on blogging services do so as if they are registered here. So it’s inspired a site maintenance to-do list today, seeing as I’m sick at home with the flu!
Make a “sandbox” to test all implementations first. - Success!
Upgrade to Wordpress 2.6 - Success! - I’ve been impressed with each upgrade of Wordpress. This one is no different. I really like the innovations, but I’m a little worried about some of my plugins. I’m going to have to check out compatibility issues first. The list on the Wordpress site is pretty dismal, and it seems like 2.6 has been out awhile - I remember just upgrading to 2.5, and all of a sudden was getting messages about 2.6!
Create an OpenID server on my site - Failed. Need to jump through hoops I don’t have patience for atm.
Enable OpenID authentication. - Issues - I’m leaving it up for now. Use with caution.
Install a Photoblog plugin - Didn’t like
Check out the delicious plugin’s compatibility past 2.4 - Success
And I guess this is a warning, if all of a sudden it seems I’ve blown up the site. I learned to post copious warnings about my activities after accidentally blowing up the community site I run.
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
flickr test
September 19th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
site login test
September 20th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I just upgraded to 2.6 a few weeks ago…then two days later, wordpress was telling me to upgrade to 2.6.2…when will the upgrades end!? I’m glad you like the improvements. I’m a little more skeptical though, I find it slightly less intuitive than the prior version I was running. I am, however, appreciating the fixes to the rich text editor; I was having funky problems with that. It’s kind of strange that Wordpress is trying to become more of a standard CMS by adding a page hierarchy. Kinda neat though, I suppose.
I’ll have to look into OpenID…that’s an intriguing idea. I hope you don’t blow up your site with all the changes you’re making! I didn’t know you run a community site…which one is that?
September 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I did like the improvements, in theory but the one I liked the most - the “press this” feature, doesn’t work! At least with photos, I haven’t tried videos or quoting yet.
I haven’t used it enough yet to know, but I was hoping for fixes to the post editor. It gets REALLY annoying sometimes. Seriously, just give me a text editor to input what I need with the HTML tags. I guess that’s what the HTML editor is supposed to be, I use that, but it removes tags that I put in at times which gets REALLY annoying.
What do you mean about the page hierarchy?
OpenID seems very cool, I’m excited for whatever advances might be in store for integrating that kind of thing into the site. It’s way too buggy now. Could only get my flickr login to work.
I run a site for my WoW guild. theprofane.net If you visit cold the theme is standard since our game theme is unusable for MSIE users.
September 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Also, I was having javascript problems with certain things in 2.5. It wouldn’t let me add new categories or change the static urls of posts because the buttons would do nothing. Good to see they fixed that.
September 20th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I keep forgetting all the little problems I had with 2.5 - like the auto save feature not working. Maybe you have to save it a first time for it to work, but it gives a false sense of security. I lost a huge post when my computer’s battery went dead and thought “it’s all good, WP was saving my post anyway!” Not so. I hope this feature works better now.
Also, the little upgrades in between the full number upgrades are pretty standard for any security and bug fixes they missed before release. Their upgrade procedure isn’t TOO bad, but a little tedious, and having all these independently released plugins that could break with each release is so inefficient.
Ok, I like Wordpress a lot, but I do have a lot of gripes with it!
October 4th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
new test comments
October 4th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
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