I’m keeping the theme as-is. I’m updating the masthead. Prepare to be… amused? Hoshichan v.19 developing as we speak.

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Not only was this the most painless upgrade I’ve ever experienced, the new admin section is absolutely dreamy. And bless you, BLESS YOU, WORDPRESS for the lovely tagging mechanism. Wow. I want to upgrade everything, right right now. 2.5 FTW!

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Originally Common Themes ran on a theme that I liked the colors of, and went well with the masthead image I dropped in. Sadly that theme is no longer maintained, and I’ve been dragging my feet for months looking for a replacement (and as such, hadn’t upgraded to WP 2.3.x.) Happily I’ve found a theme [...]

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As I’ve been cleaning up Hoshichan.com’s archives (now in June 2002, woo), I’m also tinkering with other sites and doing some long-overdue maintenance. I’m upgrading Common-Space.net to the latest WordPress as we speak, having sucessfully upgraded the Redoable theme already. Common Themes uses a theme that is no longer updated, so I will be modifying [...]

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Once again I’m going through the Hoshichan archives, more thoroughly this time — I’m fixing titles, matching the post slugs, turning off comments on way-old entries, and scrubbing out old code. 2001 is thusly cleaned. Now for 2002-2004(5? When’d I switch to WordPress??)

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Dear WordPress,
It’s lovely that you incorporated tags into the system proper, but I really miss them being displayed for me to select on the new post page. Also, 45 is not enough to display, I’m sorry. I have more like 150.
Also also, there’s no way to manage tags or view all tags. Don’t [...]

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I’ve decided to bite the bullet, upgrade and make a new theme from scratch. Hoping to do this sometime this weekend. No idea when, but that’s what I’m hoping for.
Accomplished very little today. Don’t know why I’m in such a low-functioning state, or why my sentences have become so suddenly choppy. I blame Friday.

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