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Updating to Wordpress 2.5
By Corvus | March 30, 2008
Please bear with me as I turn everything off and turn it back on again! I’ll update this post when it’s all over.
Well. That went smoothly!
Gravatar and Wordpress how now evidently merged, so Man Bytes Blog now includes support for Gravatars on comments. I’ve been registered with Gravatar for a while now and it’s a pretty convenient means of personalizing your comments across multiple sites without needing to create logins. Simply by entering the email address you registered at Gravatar on a comment, your chosen avatar shows up on the site. You can even register multiple email address under the same account.
Next I’ll be working on including gallery support so I can display all the sketches I’ve uploaded over the years on a single page.
Tagged:gallery, gravatars, minutia, update, wordpress. | 11 Comments »
March 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Testing, testing
Glad you got around to it.
I’ll update to 2.5 once I make sure all my plugins will work, I don’t want to bork all my images or something (I should really setup a local test site). Maybe I’ll eventually find out why Mediawiki doesn’t like Wordpress too.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
What do you mean “why Mediawiki doesn’t like Wordpress?”
March 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I need to do this when I settle in at my new place.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Yay! Gravatar! ooh, I recognise some of these avatars from RPS – what a small series of tubes it really is.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:11 am
I need to update WP too… and I need to tinker with my theme. It is just too low on the list of stuff to do when I find a cache of motivation.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:27 am
Corvus; the standard wordpress URL schemas takes over the htaccess file, which upsets anything else you want to put on your damn site if it is the front page of it (Mediawiki won’t work with or without it’s special URL’s, even if I go directly to the file location, gah!). It even somehow takes over subdomains last time I tried (wtf?!).
Big PITA, to be honest. Lucky I don’t demand much from my site.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:50 am
Oh, sure. I thought perhaps you were referring to some form of integration between the functionality of the two.
Do you not have the option of setting up sub-domains within parallel directories in the root of your hosting folder? That’s how I separate out all my various software and keep the .htaccess and php.ini spaghetti bowls from getting too sloppy.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I’m lazy, so don’t even host it personally – it’s all cpanel, and yeah, it automatically creates a subfolder for it. Somehow the top level htaccess interfers, grr
I’ve tried several people on this, never did find a solution. I’d use a subdomain (I have on another domain I use), but it just doesn’t want to jive. Technically, I should be able to disable the higher level htaccess commands from running (so stop the root file from executing) with some choice words, or additional htaccess stuff, but none of it seems to work.
Le Sigh.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I don’t host my own site either. It’s not laziness, it’s finances.
Your host likely has disabled the ability to kill .htacess inheritance. It keeps people from causing problems by overriding the host mandated defaults, I guess.
My subdomains are not below my web root, but parallel to it. That allows me the luxury of not worrying about hopelessly complex .htaccess files.
March 31st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Man, I should see if I can work that in cpanel somehow. If not, I’ll contact my host and ask. Wordpress just keeps on lovin’ thinking the files are not there (even with direct access) giving me the 404 all over the place
Good tip, on the hosting issue. Never thought it might be that.
And yeah, it’s also cheap getting someone else to host, even if I don’t have as much bandwidth or disk space as I’d like to host some videos I do.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Yay for Gravatars!