I did a lot of cleaning up with my WordPress installation yesterday. Now, the site is running WordPress version 2.3.2, and the new theme that I found yesterday for it. I cleaned up the plugins directory and removed a bunch of things that I tried once but never used again, and removed them.

I also now have the ability to take the blog temporarily off-line so that I can make broad changes when I need to without worrying about temporarily breaking one of the scripts or something. That is always a good thing, even if I never use it.

As I mentioned in the last post, I now use reCAPTCHA here. I did this simply because, well, I was getting a lot of comment spam and using the moderation queue to fend it off was really just not working.

There are some minor changes that I still need to make. If anyone linked to my categories in the past, or subscribed to category feeds, you will need to do so again because with this upgrade, WordPress introduced the concept of “tags”, alongside categories. So, if you want to subscribe to what I was calling tags before, they are now categories here. If you want to subscribe to tags, well, feel free to do so, but they are bound to be far more specific than categories.

Anyway, there are probably other, little, gotchas here and there. If there are any major issues, let me know by dropping me a line here. Also, I do know that some old posts do not format correctly with this new theme—I am not going to worry terribly much about it. Another thing is that I do not have Internet Explorer, and so if there are issues with this new theme and Internet Explorer, I am going to have to be told about them. Side note on that, though: If it is older than Internet Explorer 7, I am not worrying about it, so upgrade to IE 7 and see if any issues persist. If they do, leave a comment with a link to a screenshot, or email me a screenshot so that I can see what the problem is and hopefully fix it.