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Changes I’ve made and hacks I’ve added to make my WordPress installation do what I want it to.

Upgrading WP

Last week I upgraded the blog software to WordPress 1.5.1 from 1.5. Herewith a few notes for others planning to do this.
The upgrade was mostly uneventful, with only two problems of any note, underscoring that you really should deactivate any plugins you have before starting the upgrade process:

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Enabling Thumbnails

A few pitfalls on the way to enabling the thumbnail functionality in WordPress.

Upgrading

As you’ve probably noticed by the different look to Anyway, I’ve upgraded to version 1.5 of WordPress. It will take a little while before I have everything implemented the way I want it; in the meantime please let me know if anything is broken!

Under Construction

Updating to WordPress 1.2 at the moment; the site may not look so pretty until I get my style sheets sorted out and the tweaks put back.

Update: I now have most of the tweaks in place and the site should work much the same as it did before. I’ll introduce some of the new features over the next little while, so expect some changes on the site.

Adding Accessibility

I’m up to Day 26 of Mark Pilgrim’s excellent series on accessibility. Fortunately, the WordPress templates are mostly compliant out of the box so I had very little to change.

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