WordPress 3.1.3
Just updates WP to 3.1.3. Looks like too many updates these days… Fedora with Gnome and all other nice stuff, now WordPress. At least this one went strait forward with no surprises (hopefully…)
Custom RSS feeds
As per Tiamat‘s complain about Twitter updates on my blog creating mess in his google reader (or whatever he is using), here is a URL to RSS, where those posts are filtered away (by Yahoo!Pipes). Original pipe is here: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5e7808dfc84475b6b4fc83df775e35bd
In addition, there is a russian category in my blog which is not shown on front page, nor it is included in default feed. You can always see posts here and RSS here. Alternatively, you can see all those posts on my LiveJournal account (and use LiveJournal RSS).
Site Improvements
Spent a bit of time on improving my blog. Here is a list of changes:
- New theme. Very similar to old one, but uses double sidebar and have few things better than old one
- Added contact page
- Moved archives from drop-down menu to separate page (also using enhanced archive view)
- Added/Edited few links
- Added twitter widget
- Added link to my photos in main navigation
- Changed a number of posts displayed on homepage from 10 to 5, making the site even more compact
New theme is based on AdSimple, but I did few modifications to it. Two major reasons to use it instead of old one are:
- Better view of threaded comments. Old one had a mess when thread is pretty deep
- Double sidebar. It can contain more information closer to the top of the page
Fixed Permalinks
Finally I fixed permalinks on my blog. Aparently I forgot the WP .htaccess file while moving blog to different hosting – stupid of me ;)
Moved to new hosting
Finally I moved by blog to a new hosting (being more precise – to my brother’s hosting). The idea of moving here was with me for a while, but only now came to life.
Response time of the blog is much better. Thank Leo :)