Started out with some routine maintenance and wanting to do a little enhancement: Update the blog engine to the latest version while adding twitter link capability to posts. Ended up doing a bit more for fun.
- Backed up the WordPress site files and content (db). You don’t really care about this, but I needed to do it before upgrading anything… There are some more elegant methods and tools available, but I just did it manually this time around.
- Upgraded the MySQL and PHP engines. You don’t care – no biggie. What is cool about upgrading this and the mySQL engine is that they were both done really easily due to the way WestHost has their site management set up – kudos to them.
- Upgraded the WordPress software. Again, you don’t care, it doesn’t change the way anything looks. Again, what is cool is the way that WordPress has their updates now – all automatic via the administration interface. Slick.
- Added the Tweet This plugin to allow users to tweet posts and post facebook statuses. (cool) This you might care about – if you’re able to find anything useful here and want to easily share it with others. I hope you do…
- Added a plugin to change the mobile experience, which works really well for iPhone users. This – is really cool. Thanks to @AndrewWoody for the heads up on this one – very slick for iPhone users to access the site. WPTouch plugin.
- Adding another plugin to improve the experience for Windows Mobile users. Thanks to @bsimser for raising the issue for WP7 users (since I’m not one yet) and @AndrewWoody again for ID’ing the fix – WPSuperCache plugin
And now, back to SharePoint…