brad dielman

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1. So far so good. Most of my plugins seem to be working okay, although there is a bit of a glitch with WP Tiger Administration by Steve Smith, although I’m sure that will be fixed shortly. At least I hope so. He’s quite busy these days with his new design agency.

I don’t foresee too many problems since I have a pretty basic set up as far the nuts and bolts of the theme is concerned. The design itself is quite simple, so its better that I upgrade and iron out any problems before it becomes more complex.

Well, I’ll be posting and adding pages to this site at a frequent pace here in the next few weeks as well as tweaking the theme to introduce custom layouts depending on where you are in the site. That should tell me right away if there are any problems with the upgrade that need to be addressed.

I guess being an early adopter is not all that it is cracked up to be.

As you may know from reading the previous posts, I decided to move to the WordPress platform after a year and half with Blogger. Blogger was decent enough and had some great templates designed by some of the best web designers in the industry. The problem was that it wasn’t flexible enough.

So now I’m on WordPress. I really like the platform so far and I’m sure it will serve me well for the time being (although my ultimate goal is to design my own CMS from scratch). The problem I am facing right now is importing my 18 months of posts from Blogger to this site.

This wouldn’t have been an issue if I hadn’t upgraded to the new version of Blogger prior to switching over. There is a script in the WordPress installation that will allow you to import you posts from another platform, however this script is for the old version. When I try to login to Blogger from the WordPress importer I get an error that says “Login failed, please reenter your username and password”.

Until someone smarter than I can get the script updated, I guess I’m cursed to have two places where my thoughts and opinions reside. Hopefully WP 2.1 will have an updated script.