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Migrated to WordPress 2.7, New Theme

erwan — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:36:46 +0000

I made the jump to WordPress 2.7, and everything went smooth. I did have some issues with a Gravatar plugin, and the theme I was using didn’t include Gravatar by default so I thought it was a good opportunity to try a new one. So here we go, I now have a new theme for my blog. I really like the way it look, the 404 page was the only issue – it didn’t include the usual title and sidebar, and there was a huge link to the theme author! I fixed that, but the 404 is still ugly so I will have to improve it more. Something I really like in this new theme is that comments from visitors and from me are shown in a different way, so it’s easy for everyone to distinguish comments from the author (i.e. me) from comments from visitors.

So far, WordPress 2.7 has a neat completely rewritten admin panel but I can’t see any major new feature. Anyway, the strength of WordPress is really the plugin/theme ecosystem.

My blog validates again

erwan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:38:14 +0000

I’ve been using the w3c validator again, so for fun I just tried it on my blog. There were very few errors, so I fixed them. Kudos for the WordPress team and the theme designer. Not that I care that much about having a green light on the validator, but it always feels good .

So here is where the problems were:

Inside some of the posts. The WYSIWYG editor’s justify/center align button seems to generate tag soup occasionally. In particular when you have an empty p tag, it’s fine in the editor but somehow when it gets rendered the closing tag seems to drop.
The code I got from Google Reader to add my shared items had a URL with an & not escaped.

I can now proudly show this button! For now, because I don’t know when one of my posts is going to break the validity again… Not only I can’t completely trust WordPress’ editor, but I often edit the HTML code of my posts and can occasionally make a mistake.