I’ve been putting off upgrading Wordpress for the longest time because of a paranoia of losing all my posts. But after backing all the SQL databases and core files twice over, I decided it was finally time to upgrade, to plug security holes, upgrade spam filtering, and begin work on a new theme. I jumped all the way from Wordpress 2.0 to 2.8.4 – a huge time-warp – and it’s been interesting trying to figure out where everything is on the dashboard now.
I’m currently using a modestly modified form of the “Evanescence” theme, but I want to switch to a fixed-width format as soon as I resize photos and such appropriately. The bloated layouts I’ve been using are simply hard to read because the text column is twice as wide as any web layout would recommend.
But at the very least, I’m not using the age-old WordPress default that I had for years (ever since a frustrating battle trying to get a banner image to display).
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