Finally got around to spend sometime in blogging again and did some upgrades. Now the Wordpress of this site is upgraded to the latest version: 2.8.6. I’ll say I’m quite impressed coming from the really old version (2.0?). The plugin management is significantly improved as is the entire admin console. Upgrading is a relatively painless process since there’s not too much customization in my Wordpress install.
I think for most people choosing the hosted version from Wordpress (or any other blog software) is the way to go. Upgrading happens behind the scene and you always have the latest greatest features and hand-holding. For me it is a choice to learn more about how things work behind the scene – it’s an extension of my day job. So I also upgraded the Google Analytics so that I have a better idea what the 20 people are reading about on my blog.
One thing broke was the Chinese display support. I had to make some changes after some online search and trial:
Using phpMyAdmin, select the database table “wp_post”, select “Structure”, edit “post_content” field. Change Collation to “utf8_unicode_ci” from “latin1_swedish_ci”.