Bluehost have upgraded WordPress to 2.0.5 so I ignored this warning and clicked ‘Upgrade’ Click on Upgrade only if no files, languages, themes have been modified you haven’t added mods to this installation of WordPress After all, the whole point of hosting a blog is to add plugins and modify themes. I find it slightly odd that Bluehost have no blog or other means of communicating the availability of these upgrades....
Feedburner - WordPress.com provides users with statistics about feed subscriptions. At best, these metrics were questionable and I used to provide two RSS feeds (WordPress and Feedburner) so the metrics didn’t capture all feed activity anyway. As there is no equivalent functionality in WordPress 2.0.4 out of the box, I resurrected my Feedburner account and installed this WordPress plugin which automatically routes any subscribers to the WordPress RSS feed through Feedburner....
After my recent move from the community of WordPress.com, once again I truly feel like a ‘Blog in Isolation’. There are a few features I missed from WordPress.com: Dashboard - I can still check the WordPress blog, Top Blogs and Top Posts independently. Forums - While I can still participate, I don’t really feel like a member of that WordPress community any longer. Comments - signed up for coComment that tracks all comments (not just those on WordPress....
The Barthelme theme for WordPress is close to absolute perfection. My only minor reservation is that elements of the sidebar (Pages, Categories, Recent Comments) and the title of the Next/Previous posts appear in UPPER case. This is one of my pet hates as it looks like SHOUTING which is RUDE and, IMHO (sic), is completely at odds with the minimalist, understated feel of the theme. However, a quick edit in ‘style....
After two months and two days, the music has stopped, the theme rotation carousel has travelled full circle and finally come to a halt. WordPress.com offers a total of 40 themes (37 when I started) and I have experimented and laboriously captured screenshots of every single one. I have tried out all the WP themes as they became available but it was interesting to live with each theme for a day or so....
The Sandbox theme recently added to WordPress is pleasant enough but the original themes developed by Scott Wallick from plaintxt.org are absolutely superb. Clean, white, minimalist, striking, understated and refreshingly different from the thousands of themes out there.
Maybe a fraction too late for Doug Burns (whose Blogger blog has been recently hijacked) but WordPress have just announced the availability of XML import/export utilities, primarily for switching between self-hosted and WordPress.com blogs but may also be useful for backing up your blog and facilitating other platform migrations. Tempting, very tempting
My mailbox is bulging with letters from recent and occasional visitors worried that they may have missed some WordPress themes in the recent blitzkrieg of posts during the ongoing and exciting Theme rotation policy. Worry ye not. I am meticulously capturing screen dumps of each theme in a Flickr photoset so the poll will be absolutely fair and equitable (and Regulus will win). The current theme is Banana Smoothie. I wonder if coffee enthusiast and cocktail maker, Jon Emmons, might be voting for this one....
WordPress has a total of 37 themes. I have recently fallen out with my long standing favourite and top scorer, Regulus 2.1.3, after he blatantly deceived me over the state of his CSS injury. Consequently, I will be implementing a rotation policy (with immediate effect) to give each squad member a fair and equitable chance to stake his claim (hand in glove). Then I will conduct a poll of all my loyal readers (both of them) to determine the winner....
Maybe Doug’s right. Perhaps WordPress isn’t a suitable blogging platform for serious technical Web journals (with 473 lines of 10046 trace) after all. The latest theme (Solipsus 1.5) announced for WordPress is described thus: Black & Brown design, inspired by Adult Swim of Cartoon Network. That’s all folks !