Take More Risks

I’ve finally got around to upgrading Take More Risks to Wordpress 2.7.  Previously I was using Wordpress 2.3 I think! I was forced into the update as I changed the theme of the blog. Really getting tired of the old one so I thought I’d freshen things up a bit.

A screenshot of the new blog layout. Beats the old piece of shit!

First impressions…..wow! It’s improved so much over a short period of time. The Dashboard is well laid out. The ‘Add New Post’ screen is uncluttered and good to use. I’ll toy about with it more later and report on what else I find.

It’s great having shell access to my server, especially when I’m using Ubuntu. I love how I can just use the wget command to download the Wordpress installation file directly to my host. Before I would have had to download the installation file to my PC and then upload it with an FTP client. Waaayyy before I had shell access if I wanted to update I’d have to upload the extracted installation folders and it would take forever because there were so many god damn files.

Now that I’m unemployed I’m gonna spend some time improving my knowledge of the shell. I’ve got a decent grasp on it at the moment but you can never know enough about these things. Fortunately I have the Linux Administration Handbook with me right here!

Anyway Wordpress 2.7 seems to rule the school. I’ll update later on in the week with some more thoughts on it.