I just upgraded this test blog to the current version of WordPress: 2.3.2.
At the same time I attempted to upgrade my Habari test blog to 0.3.3, with rather less success. After doing what I thought was the upgrade, trying to access the blog gave me: “Controller Object ( [base_url] => /cheza/ [stub:private] => [action:private] => [handler:private] => ) Unmatched rule: 1″. I’m probably missing something very simple, but don’t have time to chase it now.
The new Yahoo Music Player seemed to make playlists as simple as they could be. So I thought I’d try it out, at the same time getting some of my favorite tracks from an out-of-print CD up on to the web. See my main blog for more details.
One of my favorite albums of the 1980s is Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen (called Two Wheels Good in the USA). It was reissued this year, with the original 11 tracks remastered by the original producer, Thomas Dolby, and acoustic versions of 8 of those tracks by Paddy McAloon last year.
It’s incredible stuff. The two-song playlist below features the band playing “Desire As” followed by Paddy doing “Bonny.” But you should stream or buy the album
SeeqPod Music beta - Playable Search
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Now playing: Prefab Sprout - Desire As (Acoustic Version)
via FoxyTunes
Following some recent Seeqpodding, I wanted to check out the embedding. I can’t do that at my main blog, since WordPress.com does not allow embedding. So, let’s try it here, on the wild frontier of self-hosted WordPress.
I just installed the release (as opposed to the beta) of WordPress 2.3 for this blog. WordPress.com, and hence my main blog, is running much the same code.
I previously posted that 2.3 is, among other things, the tags release of WordPress. I remarked that themes need to become tag-aware. Apparently all that takes is insertion of a new template tag, the_tags, at the appropriate point(s).
For Skimmed Milk, that’s the function skimmed_milk_post_meta, which is in functions.php. I’ve just realized that the_tags also needs to be in single.php. Or maybe single.php just needs to call skimmed_milk_post_meta, rather than doing its own post_meta stuff.
I now have a Habari blog. Thanks to Owen for identifying my .htaccess files as the source of the problem I was having.
Talking of beta, I recently tried to get Habari going. One of the reasons it didn’t work was: Habari requires PHP 5; PHP 5 here at A Small Orange means 5.2; and 5.2 breaks WordPress.
I’ve just updated WordPress to the first beta of 2.3. I had some trouble with cPanel, which still seems rather unintuitive to me, but seem to have arrived in 2.3 territory. The main attraction of 2.3 for me is tags, so I’ll apply some of them to this post.
Update: the post is tagged with beta and tag, but how do the tags show up? I guess that a tag-aware theme would help, and that I’m not using one.
