House Keeping

Just upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.6. There are few new things. This video from Wordpress summarizes the new stuff:

Aman made me aware about not being able to post any comments on my blog. I checked and found that everything was fine with Firefox but in IE 6 it was not possible to post a comment. I was using Did You Pass Math plugin to stop comment spam and it had some problems in IE. I disabled it for the time being and installed WP-SpamFree. Everything seems to be fine except that it doesn’t allow very small comments and i haven’t been able to figure out where that setting is ? (yea…i am really poor with this web stuff :( ). ...

I recently upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.5. The manual process is real cumbersome. Today I came across few plugins which help in almost automating the upgrade stuff. Wordpress Automatic upgrade: As per description this plugin first takes backup and then upgrades. I didn’t try this one, though. Instant Upgrade: I upgraded one of my blog using this. It doesn’t take care of backup but otherwise the upgrade was super smooth. Just few clicks and you are done. ...

Just finished upgrading to Wordpress 2.5. Everything seems to be working fine. Another issue I just came to know that wherever i am using syntaxhighlighter to format the code, it doesn’t display properly in Internet Explorer. May be something to do with the plugin. Will try to fix it. It works fine in Mozilla.

I came across a post about syntax highlighting for code in Wordpress on Thomas Roach’s blog who in turn saw it on Tyler Muth’s blog. There is a plugin called syntax highlighter which does all the beauty. Use is very simple: Download it from here. Upload to your blog’s plugins folder and extract it over there. Now (on Wordpress) go to Plugins page and activate the plugin. To use it wrap your code like ...

Well, it was in my mind for some time, to register my domain name and finally its here :) . I have imported all the posts from my blog on blogger. I will be checking and editing all the posts for any kind of issues with wordpress. If you see anything out of the way do let me know :) Comments Comment by Amritpal Singh on 2008-02-06 20:57:22 +0530 good work Sidhu saab, this proves JOSH haje hai baaki, so no tension, and Guru di kirpa naal chakki jao kam ...