Missing Link

Well, I bit the bullet and decided to upgrade the blogging software behind Missing Link – I had been using a rather decrepit version of Wordpress,   and because of that was not able to take advantage of some of the things I wish I could (such as blogging from the Wordpress app on my iPhone).

I found a version of the theme I had been using (Hemmingway) that supported Wordpress 2.5, and thought I’d give it a go with Wordpress 2.6 – and it works just fine (so far).

Unfortunately, the upgrade from 2.2 to 2.6 broke quite a few things in my wordpress database,  most notably it erased my link categories and my post categories,  at least, it got rid of the text for them – the categories are all still THERE, but display no text.  Awesome.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be going back through my posts and re-categorizing them.  That’s not such a bad thing though, as it means the categories should (theoretically) be accurately categorized, and it allows me to also go through and tag posts too which is something I previously couldn’t do.

The good news is that the look and feel of the site won’t really change much, the exception being the addition of navigation to the front page – you can now navigate to older posts without having to search for them.  That *IS* awesome, and a much liked new feature.

Things will get cleaned up over the next couple of days/weeks as I have time,  in the meantime – enjoy!