My site needed a bath so I gave it one. More specifically, it needed an upgrade. This was brought on by a bunch of comment spam that Sarah got on her site last week. We’ve been using an old version of Spam Karma and for some reason it hiccupped or something and just stopped blocking spam. This resulted in about 5000 spam comments in a few days. If you recently commented on Sarah’s site and your comment is gone now, then I’m sorry, I might have flagged a few valid comments when deleting the rest.
Anyway, in order to upgrade Spam Karma, I needed to upgrade Wordpress, which I hadn’t done since I installed it a very long time ago. I had version 1.2 and the current version is 2.0.3. I had to upgrade to 1.5 before I could upgrade to 2.0.3. I avoided upgrading for so long primarily because I had made so many modifications to the core files when making my layout that it would have been a huge pain to try and migrate it all. Luckily Wordpress has these nifty themes and I was able to find a new theme that is almost as ugly as my original. Most likely I will use a different one when I find one, but right now I really don’t care. The main purpose of my upgrade was to get familiar with the process so I could upgrade Sarah’s. So her site is next. She just needs to find and pick a theme.

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