I finally upgraded my two-and-a-half-year-old WordPress installation. It was surprisingly painless: just backed up, overwrote the old installation, and clicked a button. Now the site is protected from known vulnerabilities and can take advantage of newer plugins. In particular, the Twitter Tools plugin automatically imports my Twitter posts into this website's new Microblog category. Any other changes should be invisible, so let me know if something looks broken.
Update
I fixed two more problems that were bothering me:
- I simplified the category links such that, for example, http://www.brettdaniel.com/archives/category/microblog now permanently redirects to http://www.brettdaniel.com/category/microblog.
- I made relative URLs absolute so that my RSS and Atom feeds validate. This also means that posts imported into Facebook will display images correctly.
Update #2
I also cleaned up gallery links to remove the query variable. Now, something like http://www.brettdaniel.com/gallery/?path=pictures/2008/ redirects to http://www.brettdaniel.com/gallery/2008/.