Category Archives: WordPress technicalities

WordPress upgrade

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A week or two ago, I finally upgraded WordPress from 1.5.x to 2.6.2. After the upgrade, I had problems with the layout of the initial page, and problems logging in. Removing the inScript plugin directory and disabling wpPaginate (and updating the Giraffe theme) seemed to fix things. In the meantime, I got many spam comments.

The spam should have been cleared now, and the blog working as normal. Let me know if you encounter any problems….

BTW, I recommend the WordPress Automatic Update plugin. It does make life simpler.

Blogging, improved!

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Critical Exponent is my new presence on the web. Powered by WordPress, it will allow me to consolidate my previous blogs while giving me more control over content and appearance.

My old Blogger entries and comments have all been migrated to this new site; the old blogs will remain static from now on. To read old entries, simply look through the Old Blogs category.

This is still a work in progress. There are planned feature and appearance changes that will find their way to the site over the next several weeks. If you’re interested in how I have customized WordPress, look at the Colophon page and the WordPress technicalities category.

I look forward to interesting discussions and comments. Enjoy!

Turn off plugins when moving blog directory

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I was following the codex directions to move WordPress, but I could not get it to work: I could see the blog in its new location but I could not log into it. I had to go into the wp_options database and manually change the Blog URI back to its old location.

I finally managed to get the move to succeed by deactivating all the plugins before switching the URI in the Options/General tab and moving all the files.