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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I added the “Currently Reading” space today and hadn’t anticipated it being so roomy…. At first it seemed kind of cool to put in a little publisher’s blurb about the book, but I’m thinking maybe it’s a bit cheesy now. Not sure what I’ll do with that. As well, it makes everything load noticeably slower… so maybe it’s not even worth it. But on the plus side I learned a bit of very cool CSS and PHP while playing around with the code and implementing it.

Edit: I think I’ve decided to change the publisher’s blurb to a personal impression.

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