It’s been nearly five months since I last made any significant programming and design changes to philomyth.us. As before, there were some security and programming upgrades for the underlying wordpress site software. And also, since toying with Facebook, I found some features that I could share across platforms.
I also took the opportunity to overhaul the theme design since I never could get the previous theme to work properly in Internet Explorer [get firefox] and the previous theme was also somewhat cumbersome so that I couldn’t easily make changes without having to re-learn the entire setup. I ended up choosing a theme called Cleaker 2.1, which after some customizations and modifications, I am very happy with.
Lastly, I updated the plugins (or add-ons), “out with the old in with the new”. Here’s a list of the plugins that I am running currently:
- A Different Monthly Archive Script: posting calendar
- Akismet: comment spam
- Brian’s Latest Comments: comment listing
- flickrRSS: flickr photostream
- Samsarin PHP Widget: php coded widgets
- SparkStats: posting graph
- SRG Clean Archives: post archives
- Subscribe2: email subscriptions
- Subscribe To Comments: comment notification
- Time Zone: daylight savings time adjustment
- Ultimate Tag Warrior: post tags
- Wordbook: facebook crossposting
- WordPress.com Stats: site traffic
- WordPress Database Backup: automatic backups
- WordPress PDA: mobile-friendly site
- WP AJAX Edit Comments: comment editing
As I mentioned earlier, I replaced a couple of plugins with ones that could be shared with Facebook:
With any major site revisions, if you see anything that isn’t working quite right, please let me know in the comments.