Blogging

What I now know about Wordpress 2.1 … is that I can’t run it because my host is running MySQL prior to 4.0. Tried doing the upgrade and it sort of worked … but not really. So I reverted back to 2.0.6 and found 2.0.7 which is what we’re running now. Really have to get credit to the folks at WordPress - they have made a solid piece of software that’s easy enough to work with that many people have made plug-ins … but it handles stuff like 2.0.6->2.1->2.0.7 without messing up. Very comfortable feeling, relying on it. ...

I’ve never really understood the differences between “pingback” and “trackback”. Google likes to display older articles, which has interesting effects The first thing that I found that tried to explain the differences was published more than 3 years ago and has way more detail than I want. But this whitepaper led me to more resources on pingback and trackback. If I can summarize: Pingback Just ping a blog (or whatever) with your own blogging software No detail about what you said about them Receiver doesn’t link back to you Trackback ...