Wordpress 2.3.3+

I'm finally upgrading to Wordpress 2.3.3! I previously wrote about my hesitation due to additional tables, but turns out the tables aren't additional, they are different. I've only done one of my blogs so far, but this one will follow suit soon.In addition to updating Wordpress, I also have to update some plugins. I just updated Google Sitemaps plugin from Arne, but I had to make one fix on line 2672 in the GetBackLink function:

return stristr('?',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],TRUE). "?page=" .  $page;//return $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?page=" .  $page;

Not a big deal. Next up, Spam Karma 2, or not. I found out about wp-spamfree and am going to try it out. Thankfully it is GPL v2 whereas Spam Karma 2 is... no idea.

Gotta say... wp-spamfree looks pretty good. There was an issue with two instances of <? instead of <?php, but I fixed those and it appears to be working. Its way simpler than Spam Karma 2, so if it works, I'll be quite pleased. Ah yes, I should also include for my own use the steps I take to setup my Wordpress:

Steps I take to purge Wordpress:

1. Start with Debian base.
   
2. Then:

   rm -rf wp-content/themes/classic/
   rm -rf wp-content/themes/default-fr/
   rm -rf wp-content/plugins/akismet/
   rm -rf wp-content/plugins/hello.php
   echo "" > wp-admin/index-extra.php

   
   
   Also need to edit wp-includes/functions.php to comment out the nocache headers for my customized version of wp-cache.
   
   And edit vim wordpress-2.3.3/wp-includes/general-template.php to remove filters from blog description (and k2/headers.php to apply filters for meta description).

Migration to WP-SpamFree

delete from tablename_options where option_name LIKE 'sk2_%';