Site Notes

More random tinkering with my website:

Upgraded to the latest point release of WordPress.
I switched to a more orthodox site layout, instead of the bizarre, half-assed crap that I had going on before. Consequences (intended and otherwise) include:
- More stuff “just works” than used to, including almost anything related to how up-to-date stuff is (which hopefully will have more benefits than consequences).
- I retired one of my private plugins, which served only to make part of my screwball setup work.
- For the moment, authentication isn’t done over SSL (as it should be).
- CSS files (or anything else belonging to my current theme) are no longer served over SSL (as they shouldn’t be).
- You should have seen the mess that made of my live-preview in MarsEdit.
- Spammers seem to be getting far less confused on the way to my form submission URL, resulting in a meteoric rise in the length of my spam queue — sorry, anyone trying to comment on my site who doesn’t have my e-mail address.
I switched anti-spam plugins. Nothing against Spam Karma 2, mind you — it’s quite good, I just wanted to check out Akismet.
Retired another one of my private plugins that now duplicates a core feature.
Switched from WP Cache 2 to WP Super Cache, because the former wasn’t working properly on my site. Why cache a site that nobody reads? Why not!

Found another one:

All permalinks in my feeds have been invalid since I did this. I thought the only thing of consequence I had broken by not moving Mint properly was its up-to-date link — I was wrong. Bird Feeder was using the old hostname in the URLs it constructs.