Hehe…I did a live upgrade to WP 1.5.1.2, simply by copying files and running upgrade.php. Apart from the hack required to remove /category/ cruft from category permalinks, everything else worked. Nice.
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This blog runs WP 1.5 now
WordPress, the blogging software platform I‘m using, has reached version 1.5. The news of it has spread and all reactions are really positive – I have not seen any negative comment yet.
I downloaded 1.5 on the soft-launch day, but had no time until this weekend to actually try it. I read the announcement, read the reactions and reviews, but I was mainly interested in two things:
/category-title/post-title/ permalinks and themes.
Why I use WordPress now
About one month ago, I spent each evening in the course of one week, fidling with Movable Type 3.11, TextPattern 1.0RC1 and WordPress 1.2.1. Idea was to check the features and choose the one I will upgrade to. My goals were to:
- Use dynamic publishing
- I grew weary of daily, slow static republishing using MT 2.6x, each time when one spamming whore managed to pass through MT-Blacklist
- Use nice URLs
- I have changed my URLs once and realized I did brake a lot of links while doin’ nothing to make them easier to guess. I want to use
/category/post-title/ - Build custom templates
- I want to craft my own way of index and archives display + have enough freedom to build custom pages for examples
These are the impressions I wrote back then.