I just now upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7 (”Coltrane”) and the new admin interface is amazing! This turned out much better than when I tried to upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Beta 1. It’s really suprising that every one of my plugins still work too.
Just a few minutes ago I backed up every bit of my blog and tried upgrading my WordPress version from 2.6.3 to 2.7 beta 1. I was lucky I did backup all of this blog. When I upgraded it, nothing changed and most of the wp-admin pages wouldn’t work anyways. The editor interface wasn’t updated (cleared gears cache and browser cache) and I saw no ajaxy goodness promised by the 2.7 beta 1 update. I have reverted back to 2.6.3 and will be waiting for the final non-beta release of 2.7 before I try again.
I just changed my WordPress theme to Elegant Grunge. The theme adds an “Elegant Grundge” submenu to the WordPress Design menu. In this menu, you can change the copyright message (I changed it to Attribution + Noncommercial (cc) 2008 Elijah Grey). It also has a setting to add tags to fhe header, which I added OpenID tags to associate my elijah.grey.name OpenID with this site. All of this could be done by editing the php files, but it just seems much cleaner though a settings menu.
The Wordpress theme which I have been using up until now as the default theme, BlackSplat, seems to break my site for Technorati. I always wondered why Technorati didn’t index my blog posts but after changing the theme and pinging Technorati, it seemed to be all better. I can’t find exactly what in the BlackSplat theme breaks the site for Technorati