Well, the latest K2 nightly build works nicely with WordPress 2.5 and the upgrade went smoothly! Don’t worry, I had plenty of backups just in case it all went Pete Tong. (speaking of Superstar DJs, I’m going to see Armin Van Buuren in Nottingham at the end of May! Get in!)
Must admit to loving the new WordPress, a lot. So much has changed and it’s all for the better.
I’ve only lost my “Asides” post list from the right-hand column there. Nevermind about that for now though, I didn’t use it all that much.
If you’re using K2, as I am - don’t upgrade to WordPress 2.5 just yet. It breaks because K2 doesn’t use WordPress widgets, in favour of it’s own set of widgets. It’s a good thing I backed everything up this time!
The upgrade causes this error…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget()
when you try to display the admin dashboard. I googled a bit and found a post which kind of fixed the problem but not quite. The altered code appeared at the top of every page. After jumping in the #wordpress IRC channel to see what was what, I was advised to restore the backup and wait. So that’s what I’ve done and what I will do.
UPDATE
Well I waited and got impatient because WordPress 2.5 just looks that good! And it is!! I upgraded my K2 to the latest nightly version and then upgraded WordPress, it worked fine. Read about it here.
In other news…
I’m packing my bags to head home for a week. My train is at 1pm (BST) Tuesday and if you like, you can track the progress of my journey via bliin.com - zoom to Norwich and look for the green circle moving south! It’ll be updated in real-time using the GPS in my phone. I have a draft post about bliin which I’ll finish off and publish sometime when I’m back home.
Source: WikipediaI am writing this entry to test Zemanta - it’s an extension for WordPress and other blogging platforms which automagically suggests images (from Flickr) and links to related articles on whatever you’re writing about. Seems like pretty clever stuff to me. It’s a very simple install, no messing about with WordPress plugin installs, it’s just a Firefox extension.. So after writing 300 characters it goes and looks for suggestions or you can force it to look for suggestions. At the bottom it comes up with suggested links and tags, when I click “Apply All” it added links to Zemanta and WordPress above all by itself. That’s pretty neat. It has found some related articles, such as the one on Techcrunch from which I found Zemanta in the first place. Clicking it makes that “Related articles” box down there appear. And now let’s add an image. There it is over on the right, simple! This post is officially Zemified!!
Gotta love WordPress… With the K2 theme I’ve mentioned previously, you can have a category known as “Asides” for just posting random short entries which don’t require a whole post of their own - you can see mine over on the right of the page, I’ve renamed the category to “By The Way”.
However, what’s the point if these Asides still appear in the RSS feed? I figured the whole point is they’re out of the way, tucked over on the right there… Luckily, WordPress is very easy to customise and it was simply a case of popping some code in a file to remove Aside entries from the feed which I found after a quick bit of googling.
What a cracking film, pretty much all that you need from a quality British flick. Unfortunately for Jason Statham he does seem to play the same character in every single film he’s ever done but that doesn’t stop me from loving him! Definitely worth getting on DVD when it comes out, if you’re into 1970s cars and bank robbing.
Comment Spam
Previously, when I moved my blog from sionide.net/wp I thought I’d avoided the hundred or so comment spams I was getting daily- however, even when I wasn’t actively posting I noticed a few random comment spams trickling through. These bots just don’t stop do they? I’ll stick to Akismet now, it seems to do a good job. Also, please be aware comment moderation is enabled so don’t post twice. I shall look into other spam fighting techniques and report back.
No, I’m not going to climb the mountain. After much umm’ing and arr’ing, too’ing and fro’ing; I’ve settled on the K2 theme for this blog. K2 is a take on the infamous Kubrick theme, with loads of added functionality which I’ll be mucking around with in due time. I think it looks pretty cool as well.
I’m going to see The Bank Job tonight, I’ll post my thoughts later…
Yes, I am back once again. Restarting my blog after I accidentally wiped the entire SQL database from sionide.net, oops. Serves me right for not properly backing everything up regularly. To be honest, there wasn’t a lot on here after my previous attempt at starting to blog again. I think it comes around in phases, but there are days when I randomly think of something which would make great blog material then never get round to writing it. So please raise your… keyboards(!?), a toast to regular blogging and perhaps even some vaguely interesting content!
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