{"id":158,"date":"2006-01-01T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T01:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/01\/oddthinking-takes-on-the-new-year-with-wordpress-20\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T11:46:39","slug":"oddthinking-on-wordpress-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/01\/01\/oddthinking-on-wordpress-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"OddThinking takes on the New Year with WordPress 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OddThinking has been upgraded to WordPress 2.0. <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image157\" height=\"34\" alt=\"WordPress Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/wordpress-logo.png\" width=\"128\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those following after me, the upgrade of the core WordPress system was painless.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aside\">Stop Press: I am having difficulty with my permalinks. I have had to turn them off in the short-term, while I try to work out what is going on. This is most unfortunate, and I apologise for any 404 errors you get in the short-term. I seem to be having <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/53244\">one of these problems<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"aside\">Stop Press 2: Fixed. See comments.<\/div>\n<p>However, the upgrade of the various plugins was a bit laborious. I had to hunt down the latest versions of many of them before I upgrades. Also many were not listed in the &#8220;known good&#8221; or &#8220;known bad&#8221; lists, so they had to be re-tested.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t encounter any bugs during the upgrade, but the due diligence was\u00c2\u00a0a bit dull.<\/p>\n<p>One plugin has changed immensely in the latest version, and I am still working on the theme changes required. It is called <a title=\"Subscribe2 Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skippy.net\/blog\/category\/wordpress\/plugins\/subscribe2\/\">Subscribe2<\/a>, and allows users to subscribe via email.\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve been strongly tempted to simply abandon it and force my readers to rely on RSS feeds only.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t found any\u00c2\u00a0features of WordPress 2.0 visible to the reader, but there have been big improvements to the admin interface, so I am happier, even if you&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OddThinking has been upgraded to WordPress 2.0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}