The Easy Way To Upgrade WordPress

As much as I love WordPress as a blogging platform, the plugin, theme and upgrade mechanisms have always seemed a little kludgy to me. There’s too much diving into the filesystem, unzipping downloads, FTPing files and directories to specific locations, and in the case of upgrades, futzing around disabling and re-enabling plugins, backing up the… Continue reading The Easy Way To Upgrade WordPress

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Lightbox JS v2.0 Image Galleries

I’ve just installed a neat image display tool called [Lightbox JS v2.0](http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/). Lightbox is really easy to install – you just upload the scripts to your server and add a little bit of CSS to your site template’s header. Full instructions are included in the link above. I really like the way Lightbox can group… Continue reading Lightbox JS v2.0 Image Galleries

Moving WordPress To A Different Directory

This web site was originally created and maintained using [CityDesk](http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/) from [Fog Creek Software](http://www.fogcreek.com/). CityDesk is a great tool for the job, but it only runs on Windows and I’ve moved to the Mac, so maintaining the site was becoming a pain. I was looking for a server-based content management system, and [WordPress](http://wordpress.org/) was the… Continue reading Moving WordPress To A Different Directory

Site Redesign

This site is now running under WordPress. More content to come soon!

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