This blog is powered by Wordpress blogging software installed on a dreamhost machine. Dreamhost is an employee owned Web hosting service and is popular with bloggers. Dreamhost offers “one click installs” for a lot of Web applications and Wordpress is one of them.

Within a week of Wordpress 2.1 release, Dreamhost has enabled an auto upgrade link! With a single click I could upgrade my existing Wordpress 2.0.5 installation to Wordpress 2.1. Before upgrading, I did take a backup of my blog (there was nothing much in it :)), but the upgrade went through without any issues.

But then I noticed that there were some database errors under the category link. First I thought it was due to some error in the upgrade script. But looking closer, I found that the problem was with theme I was using! Interestingly, Wordpress 2.1 release broke a lot of themes out there and mine was one of them. It was to be expected since 2.1 release had major changes.

And hence I switched to the typoxp theme. It appears to be an ideal 3 column theme for a “text heavy” blog.

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