I say ‘almost’ because if anyone was trying to view my site while I was doing some of it, it certainly was visible….

Also, there’s at least one other visible aspect. Maybe two….

The biggest part isn’t, though, except for that short period of time where I was actually doing it.

The latest version of WordPress apparently came out while I wasn’t looking — 2.0, that is. After testing it out on a test blog with most of my plugins, [and after backing up the database, and all the files on the server] I decided that it was good enough to use here.

In order to upgrade, I had to delete a whole bunch of stuff after deactivating a whole bunch of plugins…so, there was the potential for some severe different-stages-of-ugly between deactivation and deletion. There was also the period of time between various stages of reupload, upgrade and reactivation of the plugins.

But it all seems to be working fine, now, and it looks quite nice in the backend, and there are some lovely new features. Did I already mention that?

There’s this sort-of text editor thing where I write these posts. Also on that page, there’s the category select thing, and a sort-of preview pane. Prior to the update, I was stuck sort of…imagining what it would look like with the css being used. Now, it actually shows me what the post will look like if loaded as a single post.

Also, I can add categories from this page. I’m not sure if I can put them under other categories, but still…very nice.

The visible updates….

I added a ‘previous’ and ‘next’ [with post titles] to the single page views. The one that would go on the main page is still crappy, so I’m not going to even bother with that.

I also added something that makes it so nobody but me can use my email address when posting comments…so that’s nice.

This whole lazy using-a-blog thing beats the shit out of modifying old guestbook scripts and messageboard scripts to mock up the blog posting-ease….