Today I finally pushed the Upgrade for WordPress 3.0 out. It was released yesterday (17/06/2010) but I decided to hold back and backup everything etc. Well now that everything is fully backed up I finally made the push.
I had no idea what to expect from WordPress 3.0, however over the next few days changes might be made to this website. The only physical change I can see is mostly admin side. Mostly because I am unsure of how some plug-ins will play with WordPress 3.0. So expect some bugs and errors and other random stuff! Overall apparently WordPress 3.0 is more secure and has over 1000 bug fixes and code updates etc. So this will be interesting.
It would appear lately I am on a massive Bug fixing role! I have got out the Bug Spray and started fixing some small site issues that have come to my attention in the last two days, but appear to have been going on for longer.
It come to my attention through my own testing that there where two bugs present on my blog. One of these was a template issue and the other was a coding issue.
Bug 1 – Navigation Pagination (Oh Not More Pagination issues)
Basically this was a simple style code issue. For some odd reason the pagination bar decided to shift half way down the page and stay there. It should have sat directly below the Navigation menu on the left. I fixed this by moving the Pagination code from the top of the Footer code to inside the Navigation code. More to the point inside the <div> tags that make the Navigation Menu. Would now like to see it move 
Bug 2 – Movable Navigation Blocks Not Moving
It would appear that somehow the navigation blocks where no longer being allowed to move. It was to do with a plug-in i was using. It’s called SexyBookMarks and is a very good social media linking plug-in. Basically it would appear that the author of the plug-in had thought ahead and added an option to the plug-in:
jQuery Compatibility Fix
As it appears JQuery don’t play nice when called twice apparently. So now it’s only calling the one i have included in my code and not the one in the plug-in.
Yes i am human but some of my viewers are not. No I’m not referring to aliens. I am referring to spam bots. As a result I have made a few changes to the way this site works.
I wanted better control over what gets posted and who signs up. Basically i have added a Captcha. When you register you will be required to enter a few letters or numbers. You will also require a user account to post comments. I would rather people have accounts as when they post comments it’s simple to see who is posting and you basically “own” those comments.
I have kept the Captcha rather simple, but at the same time it should stop spam bots. It’s not one of these over complicated Captchas, heck it even has a button that allows you to have the words sounded out. But hopefully you should be able to view it with ease unlike some Captchas i have seen!
Well i hope this works all right and if there are any changes that can be made i would like to hear them.
Since the release of my website i have been making small changes to it. Mostly to fix issued and bugs etc. However lately i experienced a few annoying bugs, one of those was to do with Ping Backs not processed correctly. This was later to be confirmed a bug in WordPress. WordPress have since released a new version, which includes this fix and a few other small fixes, and one security fix. I have no since updated the site and can confirm it works as expected now. Hooray for WordPress 2.9.2.
One thing to note is around this time a few plug-ins i use also needed updating so these where also updated as well. So overall my website is fully updated WordPress wise and Plug-in wise. As always i am working towards fixing any bugs/issues that might arise in the website. If you find any please do let me know!
The new Website kind of went online without a hitch, however there where a few issues that needed smoothing over and sometimes filling in. Most of the major issues are back end changes to the site. Changes that help me better manage the statistics and content of whats being posted.
I have now switched to Google Analytics as it is by far the best statistics management program i have ever used. Other changes include mostly design tweaks to better enhance the website experience given. You may notice when viewing a post there is this new bar at the bottom of the content. This is a new bookmarks add on as such. It allows you to share that post with specific social networking websites.
However there is one fix i am holding of on for a while. Let me explain a little as to why.
Here’s my fix:
var browserName=navigator.appName;
if (browserName==”Microsoft Internet Explorer”)
{
window.location.reload();
}
The issue is that IE seems to have issues with movable content blocks in Ajax on my site design. For some odd reason when you move a block you can’t move that block again until you refresh or change page. Fair deals not exactly an annoying bug, but its a bug none the less.
When that’s added to the onChange function it will reload the page every time a block is moved, but only for Internet Explorer. However my main concern is, mostly page loading times, But overall i don’t think that will be a problem. I may just end up publishing this, but wanted to air my thoughts beforehand.
However one thing to note
“Rome was not built in a day”
