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Wow, that was slick. I just upgraded from WordPress 1.5 to WordPress 2.0. The procedure goes like this:
- Back up your database (you do this regularly anyway, don’t you?)
- If you are especially cautious, like me, ensure you have an offline copy of all your WordPress 1.5 files
- Delete all WordPress files on the server, except those you have modified
- Meanwhile, edit the new wp-config.php file to show your database name and password
- Upload all WordPress 2.0 files, including the updated config file.
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Navigate to yourdomain/
wp-admin/upgrade.php
- Click the “upgrade Wordpress” link
- You are done
I know that some people haven’t found it to be this smooth, so I was a bit worried before I started, but without cause. That was fantastic. A huge “Well done, and thank you” to the WP developers. This WYSIWIG interface is pretty zippy too, although I may stay with
Markdown and w.bloggar
, regardless.
The new instal of WordPress - as opposed to upgrading - is similarly slick.
You can
download WordPress 2.0 here
.
PS Yes, this is my first post in ages, but I am not going to say much more at this stage. Ideally, I will be posting again regularly in the next few days.
January 19th, 2006
I blogged too soon
.
Johnnie
,
Freddie
,
Max
,
James
and I are not going ahead with our Blog Business Seminar after all.
Why not? I don’t think we have really rationalised the decision, but when James, Johnnie, Freddie and I met recently, we no longer had any enthusiasm for the idea, and Max had already decided to resign from the project. From my perspective, the reasons to go ahead are the same, but the reasons why not are even more compelling:
Our Social World
, other commitments and existing blog-related business.
-
Our Social World:
I couldn’t attend Our Social World, which is a shame. I spoke to Geoff, one of the organisers before the event, and he seems like a wonderful chap. The agenda seemed pretty interesting - even if some material duplicated other conferences (
Reboot
for example), I think it was a breakthrough event for the UK. Yet not many delegates attended. Perhaps it was the venue, perhaps the publicity (
). In any event, OSW reminded me, at least, that conference production is a hit or miss business and that is one of the main reasons
I stopped being a conference producer
in the first place.
by other OSW speakers also left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth, at least at the time we made the decision to cancel (now of course, that feels like storm in a teacup).
-
Other commitments:
Max has resigned (temporarily, at least) from the 173 project to concentrate on his PhD. Freddie just got married.
Johnnie has plans in Australia
for the end of the year. I have committed to
SpeakersBank
for three dates in November. And if you know James, you know he is going to be a pretty busy chap very soon.
-
Existing blog business:
Johnnie already runs a successful blog training called
Open Sauce Live
with
James Cherkoff of Collaborate Marketing
. To me, there doesn’t seem much point in cannibalising Open Sauce, plus I am talking with James C about working with Collaborate.
So that’s it. Buoyed by our 15 minutes of
Sunday Telegraph
fame, “Let’s run a seminar” sounded great. It was a back of an envelope idea (they are usually the best kind), but with a some more thought, we have decided to shelve it. Perhaps we will think again in the New Year. Watch this space.
October 6th, 2005
I am delighted with the warm, witty and thoughtful comments which readers have posted on this blog. One or two bloggers have suggested, however, that it is time for me to publish a comments policy, and reluctantly, I think they are right. To be absolutely clear, I am not doing this to prevent commenters disagreeing with what I post. Debate is good. I am not however, going to let one or two people turn this blog into a platform for offensive or misleading comment. So:
-
In almost all cases, I don’t moderate comments. I like people to comment here and I think it’s good to have comments appear immediately, so that others can join in the conversation.
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I request that all commenters stay on topic, avoid misleading anyone, avoid bad language and refrain from insulting others. If a commenter breaches those guidelines I will do one or more of the following three things:
- comment myself, asking the commenter not to do it again
- email the commenter at the address provided, asking him or her not to do it again
- delete the offending comment and add all future comments from that IP address to a moderation queue
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So, I will moderate
some
comments. The comments which automatically get added to the moderation queue are:
- comments from the people who breach the guidelines in point 2
- comments from people who have no previously approved comments
- comments which contain multiple links (I do this to protect against comment spam)
I will endeavour to take a broad view of what should stay in and approve comments as quickly as possible. Thank you to everyone who continues to add such positive, thoughtful comment here. I am very grateful for your support.
September 15th, 2005
Last week I met up with
Dwayne Melancon
and Chris Morgan from IT firm
Tripwire
and
James Governor
from analyst firm
RedMonk
. I am afraid that the more technical parts of the discussion went over my head, but I was delighted that my hunch to put James together with the Tripwire guys was a good one. We talked about
IBM
,
VMware
,
the theory of constraints
and
the name RedMonk
, among other things. Chris gave James a good natured grilling about
analyst ethics and marketing
. And there was some
drinking
.
To my mind, the story behind the meeting is nearly as interesting as the conversation we shared. Dwayne told Hawaiian business coach
that he would be travelling to London. Rosa replied to Dwayne and emailed me to say “why don’t you two meet up?” Dwayne and I duly emailed one another and started to work out a date. Dwayne also invited me to join him on
. When I saw all the enterprise IT guys in Dwayne’s network, I realised that it would be good to introduce James, so we set that up. Dwayne brought Chris along and that was the final team sheet.
Rosa, Dwayne and I had never met face to face. We communicate by a mixture of email, blogs, LinkedIn and telephone - no one element would have been enough to fix this up. A few days later when I read this quote from
Adrian McEwen
, reporting on
Ben Hammersley
at
Our Social World
, I had to smile:
We have new concepts of friendship, of how to work together, of relationships…
This is how we can get people all over the world to connect to each other, and although it seems ridiculously far-fetched at the minute, it will change the world in huge ways.
September 9th, 2005
Spurred on by the
attention that 173 has been getting recently
, Johnnie, Max, Freddie, James, Andrew and I have decided it’s time we put together a seminar for business bloggers in London.
As business blogging seems to be reaching its tipping point in the UK, we feel the time is right for an event which brings PR and marketing professionals and business directors together with experienced business bloggers. Wherever you are with your blog strategy - from merely blog-curious to committed business blogger - we want to meet and work with you.
The seminar will take place in London, in the first week of November. The agenda is still not fixed so if you have any business blogging questions you want to hear discussed during the seminar, let us know.
Provisionally, the cost of the half day session will be £250.
We want to keep this small, so we can tailor the seminar to participant’s needs and experiences. Places will be limited, and it will be strictly first come, first served. To register for the seminar, email
and don’t forget to tell us where you are with your blog strategy and what you would like to achieve at the seminar in November.
September 4th, 2005
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