1.5 and loving it
Now my upgrade to WP1.5 “Strayhorn” is pretty much complete. Everything looks more or less the same, right? It was quite an ordeal, but not because of WP. The server decided to start acting up right when I was going to upgrade the database (corruption hazard, I’d guess) and then I had to go to the sauna and then watch 24. 
But, after wondering why my menu’s links aren’t clickable (an extra closing div), why the cool comment thing I did wouldn’t show up (there was a is_single inside the comment call function), checking that the site really works well table-less (I’m so proud of myself!), and activating Spam Karma and trackback moderating, I can try to relax for the night.
There are still things to do: I had “home-made” static pages which I have to change to pages and some plugins to activate. I also have to dig into the world of page templates and make the most of it because now my code is full of <?php if (is_whatever()) { ?> statements — very messy.
Of course I have to update Ami’s page, but it’s an earlier version of 1.5 so there’s not much to do.
It’s going to take some time to learn where everything is. Write and Manage are different things and I have to remember to modify the right file because of the theme system (great feature). I am going to hack that Dashboard away because it takes quite a while to load all the stuff it loads (feeds from several dev sites, I assume, plus the dev blog at WP home)
I love the is_ functions that are now properly a feature.
I gotta get to bed now.
[edit: 16th, 2005] I had to edit the login page because the font in the fields was GIGANTIC. Geez. I ain’t blind. [/edit]
Testing new installation
Nicely done, my own attempt at 1.5 didn’t go anywhere at all. Just refused to upgrade. Though a fresh install with imported entries went fine, I’m reluctant to change my settings to use that instead. Kind of taken a shine to my badly hacked and stubborn 1.2 (not even 1.2.2)
Heheh, you know, I was (and maybe *am* — nostalgic) pretty fond of my old 1.2 — yup, 1.2, no extra digits — because I had hacked and sliced and diced it to no end. But, I wanted to get the newest WP and after some hardship, I managed to bring the upgrade to an end (no fault of WP, just the server). I do have to admit, that without Podz 1.2 to 1.5 upgrade guide (oh, and a page at Codex), something probably would’ve gone wrong. I didn’t — against his orders
— do EVERYTHING in the guide, because I had worked my bottom off doing a new template so I didn’t need my crazy old index haunting me.
Oh yeah… I have to deleted my secret prepare-for-update site and get 1 precious MySQL database in use again!