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about: WP2.5 and Technorati
I’ve just finished (hopefully) migrating all of my content to WP2.5. It took me 10 long repetitive hours.
I’ve been running WordPress 2.2 for a long time. About two weeks ago the new polished version has been brought into light. It looks nice, but it has its flows and stupidness.
Over the last year I’ve tried many times to update my blog version to a newer one, but every single time the update procedure threw up some not so funny errors like ‘Table wp_comments doesn’t exists.. Other two or three tables were also missing. Wah? Wtf? Why haven’t you guys tested update.php? How the fuck do you deploy? Absolutely no content showed up.
So, I was stuck with the old version. Anyway, this wasn’t bothering me at all, I can hack-fix any imaginable vulnerability myself, no worries here.
But Technorati just knocked me down the other day – they are discontinuing indexing older versions of WordPress. Wow! That’s a very hostile move, guys. I don’t care at all about you but I wouldn’t be surprised if other similar services also abandon older versions of blogging or cms’ing software. So 20% to 30% of my traffic would be lost. I had to update.
It took me circa 10 hours to copy/paste my content. Thank you WordPress for the 5 minutes install and for the several hours getting up and running. Maybe next time instead of crafting [gallery] you could spend some time testing and ensuring all your scripts run.
TOCoholic
I’ve had the other day some referrers from a site listing a bunch of WordPress plugins about TOCoholic. So I decided to dig it out. Here it is:
What’s new about the plugin? Nothing. I’ve just dropped it in the plugins directory and … it worked. This tells me two things:
- WordPress’ developers had made some nice efforts to make it backwards compatible and this is great, kudos
- I’ve been more than a decent developer 18 months ago :roll:
I have plans to make some changes to plugin’s features and to optimize it a bit, but for now it’s fine just as it is. So stay tuned.
