WordPress 2.7.1

I’ve finally upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1, a patch from 2.6.5 to 2.7.1 may be found here:

http://www.mapletrees.com/patches/wordpress-2.6.5-2.7.1.diff

Please let me know if you notice any problems with the site.

WordPress 2.6.5 Patches

For those of you who also run wordpress, here is a patch to upgrade you from 2.6.2 to 2.6.5.  Run with patch -p1 from the base directory and you’ll be good to go.

Here is a diffstat(1):

$ cat patches/wordpress-2.6.2-2.6.5.diff | diffstat

 wp-admin/includes/media.php            |   10 ++--

 wp-admin/users.php                     |    1

 wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php |   61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---

 wp-includes/class-snoopy.php           |   72 ++++++++++++---------------------

 wp-includes/feed.php                   |   12 +++--

 wp-includes/post.php                   |    8 +++

 wp-includes/version.php                |    2

 xmlrpc.php                             |    4 -

 8 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

Enjoy!

New Theme

As you can tell, I put a new WordPress theme into place.  How do you all like it?  Leave me some feedback in the comments!

I like that the content section and sidebar are a little bit wider, and think that the comments page is better as well (larger font, etc.).  That and it just looks nice too.

WordPress 2.6.2

For those of you playing along at home, I just upgraded our blog to WordPress 2.6.2.  I find it amazingly frustrating that they don’t put patches on their site and expect you to overwrite the entire content directory for every upgrade.  Doing so is a pain for those of us who have made modifications to the code (hear me Akismet?  Start supporting proxies so I don’t have to keep hacking it in, damn it!)

Anywho, I thought I’d post links to the 2.6 -> 2.6.2, and 2.6.1 -> 2.6.2 patches here so that somebody else may take advantage of them:

• Patch for upgrade from 2.6 to 2.6.2
• Patch for upgrade from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2

To apply:

1. Save a backup of your database (mysqldump) and your DocumentRoot, just in case.
2. Download the appropriate patch and put it on your webserver.
3. Run the following command from your DocumentRoot:

$ patch -p1 /where/you/put/the/patch

Feel free to leave feedback or help requests in the comments, and happy hacking!