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OK, so to be honest I haven’t yet got around to upgrading from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 yet, but that was just a minor security update that doesn’t effect this particular site. I’m looking forward to WordPress 2.7 mainly for a silly minor reason – I’ll hopefully be able to move the category selection area back to above the fold – far too many times I’ve just hit the Publish button and forgotten all about which category the post belongs in.
So, come November 10th, I’ll be upgrading this blog first, before committing to upgrading the other blogs.

3.5 months after the last upgrade, WordPress 2.6 is now out.
Again, rather than risk damaging the larger ChrisMerriman.com blog, I’ll try it out on this one first.
Back soon hopefully…

As visitors of this blog’s older brother (www.ChrisMerriman.com) will have already read, I had problems changing the site’s settings, due to a problem with an anti-spam plugin (Bad Behavior). I was attempting to update this blog, and came up against the same issue. Knowing already that my home PC’s internet IP address is not in fact on a blacklist, I immediately updated the files (as I should have done earlier) for the plugin, and was able to continue work here.
Anyway, head on over to the update for Bad Behavior, download the new files, upload to your server, and your problems should cease.

As I found I was unable to login to my CPanel interface, I decided to see what else I could break. This blog is now running on WordPress v2.3
I needed to upgrade one plugin, and am now unable to save options within the ‘Reading’ subset, as well as receiving a few strange errors in the admin area of this blog, but all seems well otherwise.
Anyway, I’ve found that I can still access CPanel via https and using a different port number, so I’ll leave things alone for now
As promised earlier, I’ll be writing a few posts on my experiences in Britain later, with a special mention for Hans Theessink

This must be a record for me, I was only three weeks late in upgrading to WordPress’ latest version (2.2.2) this time. I am still unable to upgrade the original blog (www.ChrisMerriman.com), as there are a couple of plugins that have not yet been updated to work with this newer version. As these plugins are used to create the basic structure of many elements within that blog, there is not much I can do for now.
Once I have returned from my trip to Amsterdam, I’m hoping to start posting more regularly here.

First, I changed the permalink structure. Originally, it resulted in long URLs for posts, that had less clout with search engines than the current approach.
Now each post should simply be accessible by it’s name, no need for the category, date, or anything else.
For example, this post should hopefully be accessible via http://test.chrismerriman.com/made-a-few-changes-to-this-blog/

Secondly, I found the line of code from the post below this that caused the sidebars to go wrong, on some themes. Hopefully that should all be sorted now.

Finally, I’ve tweaked the header image a little, hopefully it looks fine now?

Well, after some VERY basic testing, only the King set of plugins appear to have problems with WP 2.2

I still need to test a lot more, and play with themes a little.

Once the King plug ins have an update for WP2.2 compatibility, looks like I am ready to move the main blog – www.ChrisMerriman.com over to 2.2