Blog Maintenance Fun
Well, thanks to the suggestions offered by my reviewer at Ask And Ye Shall Receive, I have made some changes to my blog. Mostly it just involves cleaning up my side bar.
I have removed all the unnecessary crap and replaced it all with text links. (All but the Blog Catalog and Blog Rush stuff, obviously.) There’s now an About Me page and a little Award page, as well. I must admit, I prefer things the way they are now. I thought I liked all the images and widgets but, without the clutter, I feel better. Now, my blog looks neat and clean. Not to mention, it loads faster. 
I also upgraded WordPress, thanks to the FABULOUS automatic upgrade plugin that (the also fabulous) Gina pointed me to. WAY easier than doing it manually. If you are using WordPress, with your own host, download it here and never have to mess with it, yourself, again. The only thing I had to do was re-activate my other plugins. Yeah- not hard.
Peace and tidy blogs.
Tags: Ask And Ye Shall Receive, blog, upgrade, Wordpress
April 9th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
well it’s (blog) looking good to me. i have to get mine to load faster as well. i see you have your favicon up there. people say they can’t see mine, but i can. what did you do?
that’s a cool plugin. i dont mind the manual upgrade, but the one click that comes with my hosting company is much faster. the upgrade hasn’t shown up there. i won’t rush it…i don’t think.
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April 9th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
oooooo, how tidy and clean and pretty! Think of it as a big victory in the ongoing war of blog entropy. Very nice, Corrina! (”Partners in Crime” - I love it…
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April 9th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Hi Natural… I just made the little graphic then saved it as an “ico” file, then uploaded it to my main (public_html) directory. I’m not sure why yours doesn’t seem to work for others… Weird.
Marvin the Martian… I’m glad you agree everything is tidy & pretty! LOL… And I thought Partners in Crime was somehow fitting. ha!
April 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I have taken the leap of faith (unfueled by alcohol) and submitted my little blog to be torn apart by the rabid blogdogs. I don’t expect to fare as well as you did, but I think you’re more fun than I am. It will be interesting to see what they say.
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:46 am
OMG! I am both excited and scared for you! I’m sure you’ll do fine… I LOVE your blog.
Ooooo! I can’t wait!
April 10th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Looking fab! And thanks for the linky love.
The plugin is so great, it saves so much time!
April 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Wow. Are we going to have to start taking our shoes off before we come in?
Looks awesome, though!! Makes mine look way too complicated . . . (Shit. There I go with the elipses again!)
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Thank you again, Gina, for the link to the plugin… It is SO much easier than manually doing it. I love the way my dashboard looks now too!
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And don’t ever worry about ellipses here! Maybe we should start a club! hahaha
April 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Oh, I love that automatic updater. Very cool. And great job making the changes to your blog!
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April 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Gypsy - Don’t you though?? I don’t know how I never knew about it before. And thanks for the compliment!
April 12th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Everything looks great! And I’m in awe: you did the automatic WP upgrade? I’ve got to do it, myself, but I am skeered. Thanks for providing that link. Maybe you can do it so I don’t have to?
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thanks JD! And if you need help upgrading… Just let me know.