WordPress Hacks
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 1.2 beta—-a wonderfully easy and trouble-free process. I think it speaks volumes for the quality of the coding in WordPress that I’ve been using an alpha version since I switched, without any significant problems. The beta has been tidied up a great deal, and if you currently have 1.0.x installed, you’ll find a lot of nice new features. For me, the big improvements are the customisable meta-data you can attach to each post (this is how the EXIF data is stored in Pictorialis, which I use for my photoblog), and the Plugin architecture. You used to have to manually paste the code for hacks into a my-hacks.php file. It wasn’t particularly difficult, but perhaps a bit off-putting for beginners. Now the same functionality can be provided by plugins which are just dropped into a directory. They then appear on the Plugins page of the admin interface, where you can enable and disable them with a single click.
I promised—-when I wrote about my reasons for switching—-that I would list the hacks I had used on my site. Now seems as good a time as any to do that.
