New version of WordPress, new style theme, new commenting hoop.
Somehow I missed WP 1.4, but 1.5 went gold a few days ago, and, being one who likes to stay current, I upgraded.
The difference that proved the most problematical was the move from styles to themes. In theory, I should be able to get the Mars Spirit style converted to a WP 1-5-style theme. I tried the quick way of doing that and it 70% worked, so I’ll have to beat on that later.
In the meanwhile, you get the GreenTrack theme – which is pretty nice after a small amount of tweaking.
I also installed the AuthImage plugin, which will let folks comment without being registered and logged in by asking for them to enter an obfuscated word given on an image – obfuscated to defeat OCR attempts. (And I’m just amazed that spammers are so desparate that they build OCR into their bots.)
Installing AuthImage proved to be a pain in the ass (at least for my setup), mostly because of the verifcation word image creation, which was somewhat broken on a couple of levels.
Anyhow, enjoy the cool greenitude while it lasts!
Whee, pretty greenness and railtracks and all that.
So, was the Authimage made for v1.5? (As in, do you think I could install that, not that I could literally do so, if you had troubles, I can’t imagine me ^^; )
It’s available for 1.2 and up, as I recall.
That said, I would look into one of the other authorization image things. If you google for ‘wordpress plugins’ you will find a couple of sites that list tons of plugins by category – look at the spam category.
Did you ever get Mars Spirit converted to a 1.5 theme? I would like to have it myself, was going to work on conversion, but if you’ve done it, no point in duplication!
Nah, haven’t gotten around to it yet.