{{mid-morning}} December 20th, 2005 › WP2.0 is nearly here

Overnight WordPress 2.0 entered the public release candidate stage and I thought it was time to update after running a test blog for quite a while.

Upgrading was really smooth after I had run the recommended backup and this is my first post written using the new rich text editor.

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{{in the early evening}} December 2nd, 2005 › My Must Have WordPress Plugins

Richard has been asking me for a while what WordPress plugins I use on this site. As Darren Rowse of has recently put up a list of his active plugins in a post called I’ll Show you Mine if You Show me Yours (WP Plugins). I thought it was time to share my list of “Must Have” WordPress plugins. So here is my list of must have WordPress plugins:

Spam Karma 2
No other comment spam blocking plugin works as successfully for me.
Gravatars
Easily integrate gravatars within your site.
InSeries
Provides navigation controls for next/previous within a connected series of posts.
WP-ContactForm
A drop in contact form.
WordPress Database Backup
An excellent backup plugin.
WP-CC
The original WordPress Creative Commons licensing plugin.
Subscribe To Comments
An excellent plugin which allows your readers to subscribe to the comments for a post.
CJD Notepad
Draft posts to your hearts content.
WordPress Version Check
Ensure you get visible notification of new WordPress releases within your dashboard.

FixBack
Fixes trackback and pingback URLs when publishing draft posts.
Permalinks redirect
Ensure everyone is viewing my posts via their one true permalink.

These lists don’t include every single plugin that I am using but they represent the plugins that I would install on a new WordPress install before I even started posting ;-)

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{{in the late evening}} October 31st, 2005 › Halloween Party Aftermath

This is some of what we discovered on our fridge post Halloween party. What gems are created by drunk people!

Who did it. Him. But why. She crushed his chocolate carraw love ache is bitter with herhe likes to stare

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