Niath

After a long time without time, I’ve finally managed to update my Wordpress installation and theme. It’s now using the latest 2.5.1 and, I think, it looks neat:)

Also, after testing my SSH keys, I’ve found out that they were vulnerable due to a patch in Debian, which made the random number generator guesseable. If you’re running a ssh-server, in a Debian-based distribution, you should test if your keys are compromised.

I’m now using the latest wordpress 2.3. Despites the not so friendly installation, everything is now up and running, and I’ve even managed to use the time on it to restruture my theme. The lack of time was keeping me with the previous ugly one. Now I like the looks of my blog.

Note to self: tag old posts.

Question: How can I tag my posts automatically with the categories associated to them?

It is out, and for those who have upgraded to 2.2.x, upgrade might be a good idea, since it corrects some security issues from the previous versions.

Details in here.

This version is already out for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve waited a little bit before the upgrade. It all went smooth, and nothing got broken. Still, the new widgets management system has confused my old theme, and I’ll have to reconfigure it.

There are some new features, including (quoted) :

• WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by default in the core code, significantly cleaned up, and enabled for the default themes.
• Full Atom support, including updating our Atom feeds to use the 1.0 standard spec and including an implementation of the Atom Publishing API to complement our XML-RPC interface.
• A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any user interaction beyond entering your login.
• Infinite comment stream, meaning that on your Edit Comments page when you delete or spam a comment using the AJAX links under each comment it will bring in another comment in the background so you always have 20 items on the page. (I know it sounds geeky, but try it!)
• We now protect you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog.
• Core plugin and filter speed optimizations should make everything feel a bit more snappy and lighter on your server.
• We’ve added a hook for WYSIWYG support in a future version of Safari.

P.S.: Well, it seems the problems caused by the new widget system caused more damage then I’ve thought.

Note to self: improve the actual theme with time.

Well, it seems that the previous theme broke some of my wordpress functionalities, so, I’ve decided to use the good old K2, and customize it myself, as time passes by.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

It is with great pleasure that I’m announcing to everyone that Niath’s new home is finally ready.

I’ve registered a new domain, tiagoboldt.net, and the blog is now hosted in tiagoboldt.net/blog. I changed the theme a little bit, I’ll write about some of those changes later.

Please tell me what you’ve thought about it!

Enjoy