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WordPress 2.8.6

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Got round to doing the 2.8.5 update to wordpress last week and what do you know within days there’s a new update.
At least this time i’ve implemented it straight away.
Can’t remember if i’ve said before, but the automated updater within wordpress makes this an absolute doddle to do.
Much easier than when you had to download the files, delete the whole blog and upload it back again.
This method is done in 5 minutes and even walks you through a backup of the sql database.

As aleksandr might say “simples”:

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WordPress 2.8.4

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It’s been a few months since i last updated anything
Saw a few rogue users signing up – hope this deters them – and upgraded to the latest version of wordpress
I must say it’s so much easier than it used to be – the plugins do it all for you without a hitch

WordPress 2.7.1

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As usual i’m being slapdash with upgrading my blog’s software
But hopefully from now on you won’t see these posts because i’ve installed new plugin at the same time as doing the update which is called WordPress automatic upgrade. With this plugin whenever there’s an upgrade it will do the backup and installation through the wordpress admin pane for me without having to download files, backup and ftp myself which should keep me up to date.

Anyways, am currently with the latest release, haven’t seen anything too radically different other than it’s fixed a bug i had in the admin pane to do with plugins. But do drop me an email if you spot anything.

WordPress 2.6.3

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As usual I’ve been slack with upgrading my blog’s software, and it’s only been a few spammers signing up that has prompted me to upgrade things. And again, I’ve refreshed the ip2nation database & plugin to cater for any unusual countries or ip addresses. Things seem to be working, but as usual if you spot anything odd drop me a line and i can do some investigation.

The main reason for my post though is I’ve just installed an autotagger (I haven’t been tagging my posts in the past) and want to see whether it works.

With a bit of luck if I drop some keywords in it should add the relevant tags

First Post – new blog

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Hi there
I’ve decided to give this blog another go – this time on my own web space, with wordpress after lots of recommendations
I started off with a blog on blogger, only to find that there was another blog there using the same title & theme as mine by someone else, and if you google searched for my blog you got there’s which had been going way longer!
But that wasnt the reason for me not posting much – i had far too many forums where i was posting, and not enough time to use the blog
And I also tried using blogger to host it on my webspace with success, but i didnt like it, so i stopped

Fast forward 4 months and since everyone seems to have a blog in some shape or form, i think i need to get up to speed in all this. I also seem to have a lot to rant about these days, so no time like the present.

So who am i?
I’ve been around the internet a while now – i’ve been a member of many forums – though i’ve only really stayed with a few of them for the long run
I now have a forum on my own site, and a wiki to go along with it [not any more damn spammers]
I do all my web page designing by hand, though i have used most of the apps out there from the cheap end of Pagemill or Front Page through to Dreamweaver. I’ve just become a stickler to detail and like good, well formed code. After i learnt XML and XHtml initially to understand Apple’s Mac OS X preference files, i started to see why i should redo my website in xhtml, and how much neater it looked & behaved.
Gone were the font tags, in came CSS. Gone were all the unnecessary javascripts, and finally, the site conformed to W3C guidelines and passed their validator
But anyway, enough introductions, welcome the new blog

I will need to spend some time setting everything up here as it all looks a bit white and lacking in everything