Complete Reinstallation

I completely reinstalled this blog software from scratch. There were some issues I was having with the continuous upgrading that needed to be purged from the database, but I was unaware which settings were causing problems, so...to be sure it all worked, I did a fresh install and manually inserted all of the posts/comments information back in. The largest problem that was fixed was that email addresses are no longer listed with comment authors as was the case with the last few upgrades. It wasn't listed as an actual email, but many harvesters can still read the barely obfuscated name [at] example [dot] com type of email...and that bothered me to no end.

"So why didn't you do this sooner?!"
I had moderately modified the theme I was using at the time for certain functionality and I knew that if I cleaned everything out, I would lose all those modifications again, so I've been testing some plugins I created to carry these changes over from theme to theme, rather than modifying them all the time. In other words, I needed to finish working on the plugins before doing this -- sorry about that!

I'm currently using one of the famous Andreas Viklund themes which was ported to Serendipity; I may, at some point in time, update the CSS to be a semi-fluid layout rather than fixed. Also, I should be releasing one of my plugins once I fix some CSS specific issues (a markup plugin, dp.SyntaxHighlighter, a JavaScript-based alternative to GeSHi).

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski