Now running WordPress 1.5.x.x
As usual, upgrading was painless, upload, modify three lines in the config file, and hit the upgrade.php page (if only everything else was so smooth)… the only problem I have with WordPress is the tendency for the maintainers to totally re-architect big chunks of the system every few revisions. Every time I turn around, they’ve messed with something significant.
This time, they’ve added “themes” (or “skins”). I’m still trying to figure out how “themes” work (in terms of inserting custom content in small chunks), and I haven’t even played with the “pages” feature, or looked at what plug-ins are available.
What didn’t work (for entirely unrelated reasons) was installing the anti-spam plugins… I just can’t get the damn CAPCHA plugins to work… I think one of the reasons is that the version of PHP on my server is obsolete (4.2.2) and the apache version is also old (bleah). The server the code sits on is due to be replaced and wiped, so I’m not enthusiastic about actually upgrading either… but, on the other hand, the other sysadmin on the boxes, who is responsible for actually making the transition isn’t giving me any indication I’ll be able to scrap this system any time soon. Bleah, again.
Hopefully, though, the anti-trackback spam plugin I installed will kill that aspect of the problem.