Dear God, remind me never to do it again!!! It has been four days of hell upgrading three sites and all the plugins and themes that I use. Then to top it all, I now have to edit this sites tags and catagories from the past 3-4 years. Anyway, it will be the last major upgrade I will do with this site. I'm going to continue to finish the custom grown theme for this site; and then, that will be it for WordPress upgrades.

This is a very good interview with the creator of WordPress Matt Mullenweg. He discusses various subjects about WordPress, the internet, opensource, and more. If your a WordPresser, then this is a must-see.

Interview part One

Interview Part Two

I was viewing my site this afternoon and all was fine. I come home from a movie and find it has been fucked up by some little cocksucker with nothing better to do with his pathetic existence than trash other peoples stuff. May God please give this person a short and horrible life.

This is an exceptional plug-in. If you would like the ability to give star ratings to your post reviews, then this is what i consider the best choice. There are other plug-ins with more elaborate options and much more elaborate installation instructions; but this is beautiful right out of the box.

You simply download, unzip, ftp into your plug-ins folder, and activate. You then can either create a key or drop in a tag into the post with the number of stars you want. I have also utilized it with the great little plug-in called "Add Quicktags" This second plug-in allows you to create new quicktags above the text area of your write post or edit post screen. I added quicktags for 1 star, two star, three stars, etc.. So i simply click one of these to rate something and where ever the curser is in the text area is where the stars appear. Nifty!

You can change the image of the stars to whatever you want, and it already is wrapped in a div so you can style to fit your site any way you like. The instructions are very well written and complete, and includes some ideas for modifications. The couple who wrote this doesn't have any contact info or links; nor do they have comments turned on; but its fairly simple code to work with and should be easy to figure out.

You can get great little plug-in @ DeadCan'tRant

I'm lovin' it. At first, of course, I didn't. It was fustrating getting Gallery 2 to embed; my fault, not galleries. The documentation is extensive for Gallery2. The problem is that some of it is a little hard to understand when you first read it. For instance, there is a section in the codex for creating the whole embedding thing yourself; and a section for employing the embedding already built into Gallery2. The problem - the beginner can't easily tell which to be reading at first.

Gallery2 is exceptional; as is WordPress 2.01. A Dummies Guide is being worked on this week to help others to fully intergrate these two packages. I am presently focused on the whole visual CSS finishing of Gallery2 into my site; once finished I will post the tutorial.