Five Acres with a View

My friend at Sacred Ordinary has been blogging for five years.  Drop by and say happy birthday to her blog.

I’ve made a change to ljxp to work with Wordpress 2.5 according to these instructions.

Wordpress 2.5 has a lot of new features.

…Mandigo.

The cutline theme came with a cute 404 page.

Upgraded.

WordPress 2.3 seems to be working here.

I just upgraded Five Acres with a View to WordPress 2.3 and the theme Mandigo 1.26 without breaking anything, as far as I know. Technosailer has a round-up of the changes for WordPress 2.3.

Five years ago today I started a web log called “Coffee and Oranges.” Blog software was still quite primitive or seemed difficult to install on a web host, so I created my own using a handful of Perl scripts. In July of 2003, I volunteered to be a beta tester of the new TypePad service and started a web log called “Five Acres with a View.” I decided to install Movable Type when the beta was over a few weeks later and kept the name of my TypePad blog which seemed more appropriate than a Wallace Stevens quote. I moved to WordPress when forced to stop running Movable Type by my web host in May 2004. I have been running some version of self-hosted WordPress since then.

If my web log was a child, it would be old enough for kindergarten in the fall. Where do the years go?

The WP Ajax Edit Comments plug-in allows  editing the comment for a short while after it has been posted.