Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5
This entry was posted on March 29, 2008
I’ve just upgraded to the newest version of Wordpress. It’s all part of my master plan to improve my site. Actually, it’s because I’m trying to keep up to date. I never upgraded to the previous version of Wordpress, and seeing as 2.5 is a big change (at least in the back end) I thought I should do the upgrade now.
Nothing major seems to have broken yet, an I’m optimistic that things will stay that way. The one plugin I was using that doesn’t work is the Livejournal Crossposter. This causes something called a “fatal error” which probably isn’t as scary as it sounds.
One thing I don’t like though is the new admin panel. In fact, right now I’d go so far as to say I’d hate it. Whilst I am open-minded and am normally okay with change, this time I don’t like it. I miss all the Georgia from the old admin panel, and I don’t like all the pale colours in the new one.
However, I have found a solution! With the help of netdestroyer, I have flooded my admin panel. All is well now, so I’m off to bed before I break anything, and hopefully my site will still be in one piece in the morning.
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I love hoodies
This entry was posted on December 23, 2007
I don’t care what the government says about people who wear hoodies. I’m not violent. I’m not troubled. I don’t need a hug from a random stranger. I’m not bored. I don’t lurk around places. I don’t scare old people and I’m definitely not menacing!
I like hoodies because they’re comfortable, and they go with everything. I’ve lost count of the number of hoodies I have, and most of my hoodies are bought from live shows. I have two My Chemical Romance hoodies (one’s black and the other is green), a Fall Out Boy hoody, a Gym Class Heroes hoody, a Role Model hoody, a Good Charlotte hoody, a Michael Buble hoody, and a hoody with “London” across the front in big letters.
However, I think my hoody obsession may be going a bit far. Why? Because I’m seriously considering buying this wordpress hoody. I’ve never pretended to be cool, but I don’t think I’m a complete uncool geek either. However, I think that would change if I get the Wordpress hoody. Road to uncoolness, here I come!
In other news, the “Internet Police” have done their own awards (a la The Colins). Apparently it was inspired by me. Yay for inspiration, but next time, girlies, use your own ideas. 
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Make a website for free #3
This entry was posted on October 16, 2007
In the second part to this series I covered online generators. Lil suggested I cover Content Management Systems (CMS) in this next part, so here goes!
This little gem of a blogging engine has been written from scratch and recently revamped by a lovely young lady by the name of Jenny. Using PHP and a mySQL database, Jenny gives you the ability to add posts to different categories, offer your visitors the ability to comment on your blog entries, an RSS feed (for comments and for entries), an optional comment captcha to help prevent spam, and a basic WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.
Wordpress is what I like to call the “Grand-Daddy” of content management systems. Not only does it let you blog, it also lets you add static pages to your site which is where the real “content management” comes in. FanUpdate is more of a “blogging engine” as it controls only your blog entries. Wordpress goes the full hog and gives you everything you could need! It’s free and comes with a massive long list of plugins you can use to give your site even more functionality. It really is the “bees knees”.
I used FanUpdate for over six months before making the switch to Wordpress. FanUpdate is a wonderful script and I would recommend it to everyone who likes to have total control over their static pages and layout, as it is so easy to integrate to your current design.
I switched to Wordpress because I liked how easy it made things to update my site and add new pages. A few code snippets in the theme, a few code snippets there and I had complete lists and links to my sub-pages.
Making your existing layout fit around Wordpress, however, is easier said than done! Wordpress “themes” are very dynamic in that once your layout is made up of various “template tags” which add the content dynamically from the mySQL database everything is stored in. Fascinating stuff really, if you’re so inclined as to be interested in the back-end workings of your site.
There are of course hundreds and hundreds of free Content Management Systems out there - which one do you use?
