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WordPress 2.6 was released two days ago and I’ve just upgraded this blog to that latest version. It was a painless process and worked fine.
Upgrading your blog platform requires some essential planning beforehand, notably backing up your database at the very least. WordPress has a handy upgrade guide which, if you follow all the steps, [...]

Version 2.5 of the WordPress blog platform was released a few hours ago.
I’m about to upgrade this blog to that latest version via the 1-click install functionality provided by my hosting service, DreamHost.They are exceedingly quick off the mark in making this upgrade available, so avoiding the manual upgrade process.
If the upgrade is successful with [...]

Because I’m a podcaster, I use the Podpress plugin for WordPress on my main blog.
It makes it easy for visitors to listen to a podcast here and now - all you have to do is click on the ‘play’ image you see on a post that has a podcast available (see this FIR post for [...]

One of the plugins for WordPress that I’ve used for ages is Bad Behaviour.
Along with Akismet, this plugin is at the front line of defence against spam and other ugly stuff that hits your blog on a regular basis.
As with all plugins that I regard as essential, I tend to upgrade to the latest version [...]

So I decided to import all the content from NevOn 2.0 Experimental, the Movable Type blog I set up in 2005.
That content is now here; everything you see in this site that was posted in 2005 and 2006 was originally in that other blog.
That blog was also a migration, from NevOn Experimental, a blog I [...]

Deciding a theme for a WordPress blog can be a time-consuming exercise.
So I’ve decided not to spend hours on choosing a theme but to go with one and let it stick for a while. The active theme for now is Suweet 1.0 + Widgets, the one upon which I based the theme for my main [...]