Wordpress 2.5, a new home and cybersquatters
Wordpress 2.5 was released last night which I promptly upgraded using the awesome Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Upgrade went great with no issues so far. I had been testing the RC’s on a test account for about a week so I was prepared for what was coming. I did have some minor issues with my theme, which makes no sense, but thanks to Rob, he fixed most of the issues. There still is one issue that I think I know what’s causing it but no idea how to fix it. Its small enough that you probably won’t notice it even tho you’re seeing it as you read this. I haven’t decided if I’ll just let it be or remove the CSS code totally. Time will tell.
I’ve also moved from my web host from Dreamhost to Media temple. I did this last week and it went very smoothly mostly due to learning from my last move. I got a lot of questions on why I decided to switch because I never had any issues with Dreamhost. Mostly was because media temple contacted me after a previous post and send me a t-shirt and note thanking me for mentioning them. That is the kinda company I want to give my money too. I’m also a sucker for any company with an iPhone interface. So far I’ve been very happy with the change and my blog does seem a little more snappy when loading.
To segue into the next thing, I was driving to work when I had a awesome idea for a domain name. I broke out the iPhone and loaded up media temple to buy a domain name. Of course, the site was already taken by a cybersquatter. This is the 2nd domain I want that is rotting away due to these cockgobblers. Dammit!
MT isn’t bad but you really ought it to yourself to try WebFaction. See http://www.istherefood.com/2008/03/27/webfaction-versus-media-temple/ for a comparison between the two.
I had some encoding method because the previous versions of Wordpress was using Latin1 in the database, but the new version is using UTF-8.
I have the same problem every time I think of a good domain name. The problem the domainers have registered every one two and three english language word domains, so withour reverting to hypens or a .net, .org, .info etc your pretty much screwed.
The other issue is that they want incredible amounts of money to sell them to you, I recently enquired on one that would have little value to anyone and they wanted over $2000 for it…
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About wordpress, now they lunch newest version 2.7.
Thanks anyway.
Now wordpress has lunch newest version 2.7.
Thanks anyway.
Hey Alec
Are you still with Media temple If so how are they I was just looking at going with them.
You know what, even though the newest version of wp is out (2.7) I still like the interface of 2.5 and before. I find it really difficult to navigate in 2.7, oh well maybe I’ll get used to it.