{"id":8358,"date":"2010-06-17T16:08:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8358"},"modified":"2010-06-17T22:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T03:09:16","slug":"upgrading-to-wordpress-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8358","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to WordPress 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The plan for this evening: I’ll be upgrading this site to WordPress 3.0<\/a>, which is the software that runs this blog. The site may break, go down, show up with the wrong theme, give off a foul odor, or otherwise fail to properly dispense entertainment. <\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong> All done. I’m sure you’ll let me know if you see anything amiss. <\/p>\n

EDIT 2:<\/strong> You can’t see it, but the administration interface is kind of nice in a “oooh, slightly different shade of gray!” sort of way. The WP site claims there are tons of new features and 1,200 bugfixes. It all feels exactly the same to me. I don’t think I could even tell you a single new feature they’ve added in the last two years that I’ve used or even noticed. <\/p>\n

That sounds like a complaint, but it’s actually praise from an engineering standpoint. It means they’re adding features without obfuscating existing features and cluttering up the interface. They’re growing the system without falling into the MS Office school of overbearing kitchen-sink featurism. <\/p>\n

EDIT 3:<\/strong> Okay, I just spotted an outstanding feature. I read all comments in one big moderation queue, because if I manually visited each thread I’d never be able to keep up. The disadvantage is that I would just see all comments in chronological order without any indication of how they might be threaded. I’d see a comment like, “I can’t see how that could ever happen”, and have NO IDEA what they were talking about. I’d have to visit the post and scroll down to see the structure of the conversation. Now replies indicate when they are replies, and even have links to the parent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The plan for this evening: I’ll be upgrading this site to WordPress 3.0, which is the software that runs this blog. The site may break, go down, show up with the wrong theme, give off a foul odor, or otherwise fail to properly dispense entertainment. EDIT: All done. I’m sure you’ll let me know if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}