WordPress

I really like WordPress for the huge number of themes and utilities that it has. What I don’t like, though, is the need for constant vigilance to make sure that your blog hasn’t been hacked. When I started the conversion, I found two blog posts that had been secretly altered so that they had links to spam sites. I wasn’t sure whether to be grateful that only two had been altered or disappointed that my blog mattered so little that that’s all they did. ...

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. ...