Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4:21pm

I Deleted Everything Again (But Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and Love It!)

For the second straight WordPress upgrade I managed to overwrite my entire /wp-contents/ folder and wipe out my existing themes. Evidently I need to pay more attention to the options in Forklift when I upload folder structures. There is a “merge” button and a “replace” button - I need the former, not the latter.

Anyway, at least it gave me a reason to complete the design I was working on for a future version of the site, although I didn’t expect to cram a lot of the functionality into a 12 hour window. Overall I’m pretty happy with how the design came out. Since I was going for a minimalist look, I tried for much more whitespace than in previous designs.

There are a few cool features, however, that I haven’t implemented yet, which will attempt to make this site more of a personal “lifestream” rather than a mundane blog. For example, I have API code for Flickr, Twitter, and Google to capture everything I do online in one place. I think that can add a lot to a blog, especially if its visitors don’t already have some idea of who the author is as a person and a writer.

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