Well seeing I have just updated to the latest Wordpress from the old 2.6.x version I thought I better make a post since it’s been a while from my last one!
The upgrade was a disaster because all my plug-ins seemed to break and the theme just didn’t work, I have kind of built a custom theme as I have went along but being me I didn’t document any of the changes in code I had done and didn’t have a clue what was causing the errors in the theme. I ended up just opting to start a fresh, I logged into WHM and terminated my whole account after backing up everything and created a new one, linked all the domains up and set-up the email and filtering things, hence why your emails may have been bounced back the past few days. I downloaded the latest version of the theme, K2 RC7 and set about making it look like the old ones, things like browser identification in the comments were the hardest bits as the theme has both an AJAX and normal version and both needed patched. It’s all seemed to go well after that and the plug-ins were fine once all updated and configured properly.
One thing I was quite unhappy about was the loading time of my blog, I think this was due to everything getting generated when you loaded the page. I have installed and set-up WP-Cache and this has made a massive difference to page loading times so I thoroughly recommend this to anyone having loading problems. It can be tricky and Apache went a bit wonky with the modified .htaccess file and was throwing out 500 Internal Server Error pages but with some tweaking these were resolved.
In real life, not much has been happening, I have finished up at school and am now on holiday until September when I will start my university course if all goes according to plan. So hoping to get overtime at work as I might as-well be earning money than sitting in the house. Went TV shopping today to replace my 32″ Thomson CRT in the living room since it’s picture has started to go wonky, about time we moved over to HDTV downstairs. 
Went and had a look at Comet to see what sets were available and I managed to talk my parents into one of the brand new Samsung 40″ LED TV’s, the picture was absolutely amazing in the shop. Were picking ours up on Tuesday so will write a little review once it’s all unpacked and set-up.
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