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!
#### Update: April 30, 2008
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.
[marsedit]: http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/
[spam karma 2]: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
[wp cache 2]: http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/wp-cache-2/
[wp super cache]: http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/
[mint]: http://www.haveamint.com/
[bird feeder]: http://www.haveamint.com/peppermill/pepper/11/bird_feeder/