Blog move complete & WP upgrade

It appears that the DNS replication was a little faster than I, and GoDaddy, suspected it would be. Everything appears to be working. Let me know if you come across anything strange. I can tell a difference in speed with the new host (Nexcess). It isn’t a huge increase in response time but every little bit helps.

Since I was going to move my files over to the new host, I decided to go ahead and upgrade my WordPress install to 2.0.6. The new version was released a few days ago but I held off until now. I also implemented the Feedburner fix. That fix will be added to the 2.0.7/2.1 release.

08.Jan.07 Blogging Comments (0)

Blog moving time

I’ve only got a few days left on my free hosting package with 1and1. They’ve been a pretty good host, especially taking into consideration that it was completely free for 3 years (promo package).

Today is as good a time as any to start moving my blog. Some weird things may happen while moving it tonight but hopefully it will go smooth. The DNS setting change will take about 24 to 48 hours to replicate.

No more post will be made until the move is complete. I’m backing up the database now so it can be uploaded to the new host.

08.Jan.07 Blogging Comments (0)

Trying out Performancing

I’m writing this using the Performancing add-on for Firefox. It’s an add-on that allows you to create a blog post without having to go to your blog site. Performancing supports many different blogging platforms like LiveJournal, Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress and almost all XMLRPC based blogs. The editor, like Firefox, can be customized with themes and add-ons.

Adding my blog was quick and easy. The account wizard automatically detected the type of blog I had after I typed in my blog URL. From there it was just a matter of logging in to my site. All of my categories are available in a side pane (Categs. tab) so I didn’t have to setup a default category.

It takes a little to get used to because, by default, it starts in the Rich Text editor that doesn’t handle HTML tags well. You have to change to the Source Editing pane. All post are published unless you go into the Publishing Options and set it as a draft or change the setting (Settings -> Publishing features) to default to draft. The publishing options is also where you can add Technorati tags.

There are three ways to launch Performancing in Firefox. It can be opened as a split pane (browser window on top), a separate window or in a new tab. All of these options can be found by right-clicking the Performancing icon located on the status bar. Left clicking the icon will open it in the default split screen mode.

After making the first post, I found what some may consider an annoyance. It automatically adds the link you see at the bottom of this post. I couldn’t find anything on the Mozilla Add-on or the company website that let you know a tag line would be added to any post. You have to go into the Settings menu and remove the check mark next to Automatically insert Powered by Performancing? under Publishing features to stop it from adding that line.

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07.Jan.07 Blogging Comments (0)