Textpattern Upgrade
I’ve just upgrade to TXP 1.0RC3 so there may be a few glitches around for a while. Bear with me. Feel free to comment if you spot anything. The first thing I’ll try and fix are the style downloads as they are popular. Done. My comment link is buggered. Done. Plugin no longer works so back to normal link for the moment. Guestblock stats in the menu are causing problems again. Done. Bostin’. This is almost going well. I’ve had to upgrade my archives plugin which means I’ve lost some styling and the “back to the top” links are crap. Done. I must be on a roll. Do mention if you spot anything. Some of my page titles are messed up. Done. Need to re-install QuikPik3. Done. “Read Full Article” link is messed up. Plugin problem. Can’t solve that one. Tut tut. Removed the plugin. Done. Need to find some other way of doing excerpts to keep control of the page length. Took a while but done.
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Well I have to say that once I realised that there was a new root index.php file everything went pretty well. Up until then I was getting 500 Server Errors all the time and pulling my hair out especially when the same thing happened on my PC install. My TortoiseSVN is set to go straight to the textpattern directory and ignore the root as there usually isn’t anything new in there.
Anyway a couple of problems with plugins not picking up the proper urls now. The file download still works, thankfully, though I don’t think it relies on TXP much so would probably work with any version. Had to re-do those mods to DB to get the Guestblock stats working again in my menu.
WP 1.5 does look the best I’ve seen so far. I’m still not happy that the individual templates aren’t always independant. I do think it’s a little confusing especially if you haven’t worked with templates before. And why can’t they sort out that old default. You’d think they’d have got the message by now. I created a 1.5 template set not a couple of weeks ago and you should go see how many times it’s been downloaded already. And I haven’t mentioned it on the forum! Last time I mentioned anything to do with Gemini I got flamed. I’ve only told Podz and Shadow that it exists.
I have a test site up and running. I’m helping someone sort out their design at the moment. I think it’s a very good blogging tool but it’s not for The Bomb Site. The static side of the WP setup is still too flakey for me. I think TXP rules there. And I prefer the TXP back-end especially with QuikPik installed. Very soothing.
So are you thinking of moving both sites or maybe just differentsky.com?
I sure leaned a lot about anti-SPAM coding, but wished I never had to in the first place.
I went to your WP test site. How was the installation? Were the templates as good as they say they are? Is the Adnim. page more user friendly with a better layout?
Tom – go for it. You should find upgrading simple enough I think though mine was a fresh install. It’s not the official release I’m using but a nightly from a couple of days prior to the public release but there shouldn’t be too much of a difference. (I was having a problem getting to the WP site so Podz sent me a nighly zip over from the 7th Feb if my memory serves me correctly.) I’m using my own “Gemini” template set for 1.5 with a CSS supplied by the guy I’m helping out. It’s very simple to construct a theme which simply consists of the templates, css and images all rolled into a single folder and uploaded to the “themes” directory. Your new theme then appears in the themes listing and you just activate it. I don’t think it could be any easier! You will have 2 themes installed by default. One is a lightweight version of “Kubrick” (you remember that theme they said was not going to be the default?) and the other is the old default which is now known as “Classic” (you remember the one with the “footer” that wanted to be a “header”? Still the same.) I have a PC install which has most of my layouts currently installed as themes.The system seems to work fine.
I don’t know that the backend has changed much since 1.3 Tom if you’ve been using that and in terms of styling still follows the Mingus colouring etc. so apart from the odd extra option it all still looks pretty much the same.
If you do decide to swap to TXP for any reason I would leave it for a week or two. The RC3 version I’m using is only available through SVN at the moment because this is to be the official version 1.0 once they are happy they’ve squashed any bugs. Those of us using RC3 are really just testing it out and giving feed-back and there is quite a bit at the moment as there are some radical new features to try out like the 4 new import scripts for MT (file and MySQL), WP, Blogger and b2 and the use of clean URLs via “htaccess” only without place-holders. I only have 5 files in my root directory now and 2 of those are graphics (icon and vdeck). So just an index.php, an htaccess and a robot.txt file. Shouldn’t be too long a wait though. We are a pretty efficient bunch when it comes bug-squashing.
Thanks Man =)
So much striked out and stuff. Scary. :)
Stuart: You know, with just the native setup, I can’t believe that no SPAM gets through on WP 1.5? I wonder what they did to prevent the SPAM bots from attacking? This is scary without SPAM protection:
theme from the Twilight Zone starts playing in the background
Tom – as I don’t use WP I’m not sure what they’ve done but I do know that there are things in TXP (apart from the preview button) which you can’t see and all comments are examined before they are published. You do realise that Matt and Dean work together on things?