Well, it's official, my website is now running b2evolution 1.8.1 RC1. This is a good thing! I ran into relatively few problems with upgrading other than the time it took to rewrite the skin.

There are a few changes now, it will now be necessary to moderate your comments in order to minimize problems with comment spam. I'm going to look at the ability to disable this feature for "trusted" users, I'll see what I can do.

With this new version, there are a couple of new plugins which I was able to implement pretty easily, as you can see below:

I'll work on my gallery next , I found a pretty cool skin for that which I think I should be able to better merge it with my blog, so it looks like a more seamless transition. Let me know what you think.

-Trevor

Update:

Screw it, posts will automatically go through for now. That was more problematic than it was worth. You may also be aware that there is not a subscription option in order to receive an e-mail whenever there is a post. You will likely have to create a username for this to work correctly.

My new skin is just about complete. It should fix many of the problems currently plaguing this blog, including links in my posts which aren't really visible as links. However, IE still doesn't want to display as nice as I like so I really do recommend you don't use IE for anything but necessity as it is really a crappy browser. Firefox is a lot easier to have things format the way I expect them to, the differences between how Firefox and IE display code from someone like me is amazing. I suppose since there are so many ways of writing code to do the same thing that I am clearly missing somethhing, but regardless, go get Firefox or possibly Opera, though I am not sure how well it works in Opera or Safari for that matter. If you read this and shortly after my site isn't working or it isn't working while trying to read this, though I don't know quite how that would happen, be patient, all will be well.

-Trevor

Update: Well I believe my skin updating is complete for the moment. I think it is actually a cleaner skin that is easier to read. One thing that changed is the way b2evolution handles the date in the locale options so after I upgrade I will not be able to display the long date format as currently. This is frustrating to say the least as that is a very visible part of my skin.

In the future, and I know I always have high hopes for updating, I may try to tweak the skin here and there to try to update the look a bit.