Changelog

This is the changelog for www.paulwicking.com. I’m not promising it will be complete in any way, it is mainly for me to remember what changes I’ve done myself. Also, as I start noting stuff nine days after starting the site, there have obviously been quite a few changes that have been lost. But starting June 27th, I’ll try to post most changes here. Obviously, content adds will not be part of this changelog.

Oh, and did I mention this to probably be a very boring read? Okay, well, at least now you’ve been warned!

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010:

  • Upgraded to WordPress 3.0
  • Updated all plugins and themes
  • Changed back to my original theme
  • Updated contact and about pages

Thursday, April 29th, 2010:

  • Changed theme

Thursday, December 24th, 2009:

  • Upgraded the Akismet spam protector plugin
  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.9
  • Upgraded Calais Auto-tagger plugin
  • Upgraded Twitter for WordPress plugin
  • Upgraded NextGEN Gallery plugin. Maybe I should start using this plugin, soon?
  • Upgraded the iPhone Control Panel plugin
  • Upgraded Google Sitemap Generator plugin
  • Upgraded the SEO Image plugin
  • Added years to the dates on this page, as I started this blog in 2008 and we are soon in 2010.
  • Exceeded 666 words on this page.

Sunday, August 9th, 2009:

  • Upgraded the Akismet spam protector
  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.3
  • Added more invisible anti-spam measures
  • Upgraded the NextGEN gallery plugin. Maybe I’ll put it to use someday, too!
  • Changed a detail in the stylesheet, allowing for a better presentation of the metainformation in posts (specifically, adding a line break after the keyword in “Todays chinese word” and “Todays movie” etc).

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009:

  • Added robots.txt
  • Added some preventive measures against comment spam attacks (invisible).
  • Added Terms of use and Privacy policy.
  • Adjusted the stylesheet to remove padding when hovering links in the sidebar. The padding had the unfortunate habit of making certain links “hop”, as they became wider than the width of the sidebar when hovered – and when line-breaked, weren’t hovered any longer and then went into an endless loop of hover/no-hover states.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009:

  • Added rounded corners to the footer (eyecandy)
  • Added Contact Me page. Feel free to drop me an email!
  • Removed a border around the logo image that kept showing up in FireFox only.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009:

  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.
  • Upgraded all plugins
  • Modified the header to include Tweets by use of the Twitter for WordPress plugin by Ricardo González.
  • Updated copyright notice (added a year).
  • Popped a beer and celebrated the 1 year anniversary of this blog since the 18th!

Friday, January 30th, 2009:

  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.
  • Upgraded most my plugins for the blog (too many to mention, although not that many).
  • Started blogging again!

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008:

  • Validated the site’s HTML and CSS through the W3 Validator service.
  • Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2.
  • By cleaning up CSS code, removed problem with MSIE not displaying right-hand sidebar correctly.
  • Edited the_meta() function of WordPress so that it displays several keys vertically rather than horizontally.

Sunday, September 7th, 2008:

  • Added category Private, for protected posts.
  • Made minor adjustments to the layout to clean it up a little.
  • Removed element in the style-sheet that keeps visited links same colour as unvisited ones.
  • Widened the header to match the width of the entire content.
  • Added tag cloud and recent comments to the sidebar

Saturday, September 6th,2008:

  • Styled the <ul> elements for the post-meta added yesterday, layout looks tidier.
  • Changed default text-size from 12 pixels to 14 pixels, improving readability.
  • Added picture of myself to the About Paul Wicking page.

Friday, September 5th, 2008:

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008:

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008:

  • Upgraded to WordPress version 2.6
  • Upgraded SEO Friendly Images plugin to version 2.3

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008:

  • Changed layout by using the_excerpt() tag in WordPress, thus reducing the amount of text on the front page and basically creating more clicks on the site I guess.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008:

  • Added SEO Images WP plugin.
  • Added KB Easy Picasaweb plugin to show pictures from Picasa in posts.
  • Upgraded Akismet anti-spam tool.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008:

  • Added Creditations page.
  • Messed about with the post metadata, added time and date stamp to the blog posts.

Friday, June 27th, 2008:

  • Styled the links in the sidebar, increasing ease of use by adding padded background colour on hover.
  • Added Changelog page.