Welcome!

May 13, 2008 in blogging, tech, wordpress by spinstah | 4 comments

Welcome to my new installation of WordPress (2.5.1), hosted at FatCow (along with the rest of my website)! I am super-psyched to have this up and running. It didn’t actually take all that long, aside from the problems I had a) properly updating from 2.3 (which is FatCow’s current 1-click installation option) b) importing posts & comments without breaking the template (damn corrupted drafts) and c) hacking around in the php to update the images in the header. .

The current theme is Upsilon, written by Tim Hyde of Living Open Source. It features a header that runs SmoothGallery, a nifty slideshow tool I had not previously heard of. The php running the slideshow was pretty easy to deal with once I figured out what I was looking at (though there is definitely at least one weird quirk). I came across this theme trolling through the WP theme gallery to find something interesting (”someday” I will go ahead and blend the blog right in with the rest of my site, haha). Interestingly, the theme is one of many written by Tim with the goal of providing good-looking, highly functional themes for churches & other faith communities to use on their blogs. (He’s an IT-guy-turned-minister.) That’s a pretty cool project.

Anyway, you’re going to need to update your RSS feed. I’m sure I could go through some acrobatics to make it so you don’t have to do so, but I think you can handle it. Click on the RSS button in your address bar, use the link in the Admin portion of the sidebar, or scroll way the heck down to the bottom for another RSS link.

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  1. Heather on May 13, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Hey, glad to visit while you still have the “new blog smell” (not to be confused with “wet dog smell”)! Sorry to hear that the upgrade/import was less than easy– I’ve been having issues with the auto upgrade plugin from WP2.2.3> 2.5.1 and have decided to do it manually when I have time… someday… which may or may not be this month. Oops.

  2. spinstah on May 14, 2008 at 9:16 am

    I tried to use that plugin at first, and I was having problems with it as well. When I did it manually it worked fine – seems like the trick is just not to overwrite any files you’ve edited (like the theme). We’ll see how easy that is next time around! :)

  3. nick on May 15, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    the RSS feed (yes, I’m one of the lazy) no longer has the full text of the post in the feed. Can you change it so that the full post is downloaded with the feed? Your new site is awfully pretty (enough so I don’t mind visiting it when there’s a new post) but it’s just nice to have the new posts delivered in their entirety to my Mail program…

  4. spinstah on May 20, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    I was wondering if anybody would complain about that. :) Since you asked so nicely . . . .

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