2008
Wordpress 2.5, a new home and cybersquatters
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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!
Tags: dreamhost, mediatemple, wordpress
Bruce has made a Comment
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.
March 31, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Davy Armstrong has made a Comment
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.
May 14, 2008 @ 12:16 am
Tourism North West Australia has made a Comment
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…
August 11, 2008 @ 9:09 pm
Guru has made a Comment
Cool !!
your collection about Music is too Good. I like your collected information about Music.
Superb
Guru
August 22, 2008 @ 7:01 am
praveen has made a Comment
good one..
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August 29, 2008 @ 7:50 am