WordPress Upgrade complete!
After more than 3 years of enduring spam comments (and amassing close to 15,000 spam in my moderation queue despite turning off comments), I have upgraded to 2.5. T’was a lengthy process complicated by the mistake of not reading the “Detailed upgrading instructions” and thereby trying to (fatally) upgrade from 1.2.2 to 2.5. But after some sql surgery and restoration and following the instructions to do a 2-step upgrade, Tabibito is back! Stronger! Faster! Uglier! :D
Changing the theme will have to wait a bit. It took me nearly 4 hours to get everything settled down. The first upgrade and panicked restoration happened after I woke up, without any lunch. I now know a whole lot more about MySql :P But all’s well that ends well, and I am feeling pretty satisfied with myself. Especially since this upgrade solves both my spam problem and the bug of having my posts show up in reverse order.
I’ve just futzed around a little with the new interface, and I have to say WordPress is one sweet piece of work. I did user interfaces for a living, not so long ago, but even in my glory days I would never have dreamt of implementing some of the nifty AJAX stuff they have. Because I would’ve been afraid of getting lynched by the developers, you know.
All in all, a very productive, if somewhat stressful, Sunday.
