Upgrading

Tags: php, wordpress
Written by: kamasheto

Yay, one more upgrade without errors. Actually upgrading wordpress (this version) is a damn piece of cake compared to other systems that require you to actually input something (I am lazy aren’t I?).

Nevertheless, I can spot a significant difference or two from barely browsing, I’m impressed to see plenty of back-end developments being done to this version however (I read that of course, I’m not that clever). It was a pain to figure out a thing or two (for example the smilies) and where they were in the source files because they were not where they originally were (for those who care, smilies are no longer in wp-includes/vars.php, they now lie in wp-includes/functions.php - I never really got why they hardcoded the smilies actually, shouldn’t they be dynamic more of?). Anyway, one tiny edit to the skin file and I were able to make use of the new tags feature which apparently is one major change on v2.3. I did some tweaks of my own (like the string instead of digit in members online now Nah, I liked the digits more, I changed that back - just for the record) and a tiny edit in the footer then, now that I’m already in there (I AM becoming very lazy).

Do me a favor, if you checked my blog ever before do a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5) - the CSS file should be cached and I added a couple of classes that help make things look like they actually belong here. So you can go right ahead and do just that, now (its bugging me, please? as well as clicking the ads at the top too - thanks).

Anyway, you can read more about the changes here.