the Zen of Communication.

If you’ve been following along, you may have noticed a distinct lack of progress with the MRTG/IIS thread, and the server mod.  That’s because shortly after I finished up the first round, the RAID array on my server took a dive.  Everything’s intact, but the server is limping right now, and I need to migrate to different hardware.  It, of course, is high priority just like everything else in life, and I need more than an hour or two to do it… easy, right?

So, once that’s been done, I can get back to rolling like we do.  Till then, keep tuned in. 

I just performed a long overdue upgrade of WP to the latest rev.  I’ve put it off until now because I’ve spent so long customizing the pages, adding plugin sources to pages, changing layouts, etc, I was rather nervous about an updated install hosing something up that would take days to find and fix a comma out of place (been there, esp. with the PHP mods).  But, I have to admit it was much simpler than I’d anticipated. 

The instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress make things very simple, and point out “don’t do this”.  I followed the guide for both my sites (Zen & Wings), and it worked quite instantly.  I backed up everything first though (including MySQL databases, as the new rev will make some changes) just as a precaution.  The new rev will also run automatic updates, saving me the trouble. 

So there’s a new login page, and a bunch of updated behind the scenes stuff.  If there are any issues, please let me know. 

And while I’m at it, is this site helpful?  Aside from more regular posts, I’m curious if there is anything you’d like to see added, more of, etc. 

Update: Turns out SemiSecure Login doesn’t like WP 2.7.1 .  After logging out, I was locked out again.  If you run into this, just rename the plugin directory to disable it, and then deactivate it.  I’ve replaced it with SemiSecure Login Reimagined which uses RSA keys over OpenSSL, which is much better anyway.

So, just as an fyi, I’ve added some stuff on. Here’s a short list.

1) The posts now show who wrote them! That way I’m not getting all the credit for everybody else’s creativity – Bad Karma. However, given that it took me a week to find how to properly use the php show author tag, it will be a while before I make the author’s name a link to go to either a custom page, or a list of their other posts. But it will happen. That way someone can go “Who’s this guy? I’d like to see more of what they’ve written”.

2) Posts will automatically snip on the main page. It will link to “(::Read More… ::)” after the first paragraph. So write posts as lengthy as you want, and just include a paragraph break somewhere in there.

Very short list. But stuff none the less.