New WordPress updates available, so it’s time to upgrade again. Nice thing is that Dreamhost knows there’s a lot of people that use it, so they tend to patch up their “one click installer” to upgrade the software within a few days – sure enough, I got the message today that they’d patched it up, and the new release was only a few days ago. The down side is that I’m using one of the themes that they package with your install, so every time I upgrade, all the little changes to the theme that I made disappear (I get “Link buttons” on the top by the search bar, the photo disappears, and posts lose their author & timestamp information).
So finally this time, I did the upgrade, then made a backup copy. This way, when I finished re-applying my finishing touches to the theme, I could run ‘diff’ on the two trees and generate a patch I can use in the future. Since they’re fairly simple changes, and don’t affect a lot of the meat of the program, I’d imagine that patch will hold up for quite a few releases. At least until the next major revision, which supposedly isn’t far away. 😛