Accessories to Life

Another wordpress upgrade

After a few trial and error, which seems to be the order of the day (see article on blunder blender), I did a few upgrades on wordpress (see previous article on Upgrading Wordpress and bookmarking).

The first thing I’ve upgraded was to include an automatic upgrade script for wordpress, many thanks to Techie Buzz. This is the one thing which I hope will make future upgrades much easier (it can’t get any easier than automatic can it?!!). So i’ve upgraded from my version 2.0.6 to a version 2.5.1.

After this upgrade, I realised Wordpress now comes with resident tagging functionality, which I’ve been waiting for for quite some time. Categories do not give the same flexibility as tags. Although my bookmarking system has now changed to an action based bookmarking system (see article on Upgrading Wordpress and bookmarking), I still prefer to have both a hierarchical system (like categories) working hand-in-hand with a more flexible system like tagging.

So I’ve recategorised and tagged all 200+ posts of mine (phew!). It has taken quite a while as Wordpress do not feature a power edit function where you can bulk edit the categories and tags for selected posts all at one go. I’ve seen this feature on Librarything, and have now suggested it to the good folks at the Wordpress community. By the way, please help vote for it if you think this is a good function too. Go to this link at wordpress.org.

As for the categories, I’ve kept it to just 5 categories for now:

• Accessories to Life (gadgets, software, money etc)
• Guides to Life (ideas, thoughts, inspiration)
• Life around Us (people and the environment around us)
• Life in motion (what we do e.g. Tai Chi, sports, running)
• The diverse Life (sounds better than miscellaneous)

Moving on to other changes, I’ve changed the theme to The Morning After, courtesy from Arun Kale at The Masterplan. With this theme, i’ve included a few plugins. One of my favourite ones is the WP-print plugin by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. You can now go to a print-friendly version of each post and print from there. It even comes with footnote references to the links in the post! (sorry, but these sort of things excite me…)

My other favourite plugin would be the random posts plugin, which does it what it says, i.e. show random posts from my blog. Thanks to Rob Marsh on this.

After all these, somehow, the tag line of “learning less everyday” doesn’t quite suit this blog with the new categories. I’m still thinking of a new tag line, so if you have any suggestions, please contact me or post a comment in this post. By the way, you can also click on the questions tag to find out other questions I’ve posted which is dying for some suggestions from you.

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