stephen blyth’s blog

With AJ’s help on the other end of the phone from Deutschland, I’ve updated the software that runs this blog. I’ve been wanting to use the latest version of Wordpress since it came out earlier in the year.

As an open source project, hundreds, if not thousands of people have been working behind the scenes to improve the way the Wordpress blogging software works.

The most noticeable difference is a much nicer interface for me as an author, plus the integration for some little features that used to only be optional. One of these makes for very easy tagging. The way uploaded media is handled is much nicer too. Then deep within the code there are doubtless some security enhancements between the old and new version.

In the process of changing over I’ve lost two blog posts…. fortunately I’ve found one that was automatically downloaded in my RSS reader. The other is gone. Consigned to cyber-history. I’d say this is a small price to pay for the switch.