by Michael Alderete on 3/16/2012
After a very long run with a customized Kubrick WordPress theme, I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading to a more modern theme, built on the Thesis Theme for WordPress. The visual design is currently pretty Spartan, I hope to dramatically improve that in the not-too-distant future. For now, the new theme improves the foundation of the site, and makes ongoing changes easier.
I plan to follow the visual refresh up with a refresh of most of the content in Aldo on Audiobooks. Look for the first updates over the weekend.
Hopefully with these monkeys off my back, I’ll get back to more frequent blog posts. We’ll see!
by Michael Alderete on 3/3/2007
I am in the process of upgrading Aldoblog to the latest version of WordPress. I think I’ve finished most of the work, with just some cleanup remaining where the new version of my formatting plug-in is behaving differently. It seems to only be affecting my longer instructional pieces, mostly for numbered lists, so the scope is limited, but wrangling the formatting back to “correct” is likely to take a while.
Anyway, if you see anything that doesn’t work or look right, please do shoot me an email and let me know. Thanks!
by Michael Alderete on 6/30/2005
Yet another WordPress update, and once again, no list of the changed files to make the minor update a little easier to install. A quick multi-file Find Differences in BBEdit gave me the following list of six files with changes:
Read the rest of this entry (54 words) »
by Michael Alderete on 5/14/2005
I updated to WordPress 1.5.1 on Friday, after drinking a cocktail with Rochelle. Maybe not the best strategy for preparing for a software upgrade, but everything seems to be working fine. Let me know if you see something funky…
When I converted this site to WordPress, I decided to turn on commenting, and see what happened. I have gotten a fair number of really good comments, and from people I didn’t know, which was cool. I also got a ton of comment spam (most of which never made it online). Not cool.
So I did a few things about it.
Read the rest of this entry (213 words) »
by Michael Alderete on 2/19/2005
OK, the new version of WordPress is going to get me into trouble. I’m having entirely too much fun playing with the new features, and finishing out the last few things that hadn’t made the transition. (I think on the public side, I’m 100% done. Still a couple of tweaks on the admin side, to make writing posts a little easier by bumping up the font size and so on for the editing form.)
At any rate, I need to get back to work, instead of continuing to fuss. Bye!
The WordPress upgrade instructions are pretty good, but they left out at least one recommendation I wish I’d heard before I got started:
Take screenshots of the current version of your weblog!
Once you convert to version 1.5, you won’t be able to view your old version any more. But if you are planning on keeping the same visual design, with the very significant reorganization (and improvement) of WordPress themes, you will have to make a lot of little changes in a lot of different places. How will you know if the new version successfully replicates the visual design of the old?
Read the rest of this entry (240 words) »
