On Monday the new version of WordPress drops, and being the bleeding-edge person that I am it’s inevitable that Monday I’ll download WordPress 2.3 and break lots of shit when I upgrade. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n
No, seriously. I’m not planning on upgrading immediately<\/i> this time around. I still have nightmares of the 2.1 upgrade — that broke lots<\/i>. I’ll give it a few days, let other people suffer, and then, probably sometime next weekend, I’ll take the plunge.<\/p>\n
The change of the website’s theme was motivated, in part, by the impending release of 2.3. A theme closer to the standard seemed like a good idea. At the very least, I’ll be able to see in the theme code what’s changed under the hood.<\/p>\n
I’ve also gone and done a back-up of the database. Thirteen hundred posts, thirteen hundred comments, and a whole hell of a lot of other data. So that’s done.<\/p>\n
Just thinking ahead. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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