Upgraded to WordPress 1.5
I’ve just upgraded this blog to the new release of WordPress, the server-side software that runs it. It was a bit hairy, as the upgrade didn’t go quite according to plan, and the whole blog just returned an HTTP 500 error, which means internal server error. It turns out that my .htaccess with all the mod_rewrite rules in it got borked. I just deleted it and let WordPress recreate it and all was well again.
The announcement—WordPress > Development Blog > Announcing WordPress 1.5—explains the new features. There’s lots of good stuff in there, but most notable is the fact that WordPress has matured from being purely for blogging into more of a personal content management system. I actually think it would work well for small companies and organisations as well, and I think it will be one of the things I use as a platform for those kinds of clients.
The plugins architecture is particularly powerful, and I think I will be evaluating plugins for this blog for two of the most obvious features: threaded comments (i.e. the ability to reply to a comment) and the ability to preview a comment before posting. Also I don’t understand why the nice interface I get for quickly inserting hyperlinks and the most common kinds of markup is denied the posters of comments. There’s probably a plugin for that too.
One feature you lot might be interested in: supposedly there is an options somewhere for you to be notified by email if someone comments on a particular post. I’m not sure yet where that is to be found. It may be an option when you post a comment, or it may require registration and then be made available as an option (i.e. something like “Notify me by email of comments to posts I have commented on”, or something like that). Poke around for yourselves and see what’s on offer.
