A friend of mine, Dee Lynn, wanted some place online to put pictures of her travels and blog about what interests her. So I happily obliged and created another WordPress blog in Arguable. Her site is arguable.ca/dee.
It was easy enough to set up. I just created a folder under the root of arguable called dee and copied the WP files there. The first time I went into the site it created all the MySQL tables and set everything up for me. I then turned on the Akismet spam plugin and installed and enabled the NextGen Gallery that I have been using for photos.
WordPress has been upgraded to 2.5.1 without any issues (so far.) Arguable was the victim of a SQL Injection hack for the last several months and I finally got around to doing something about it, namely upgrading WordPress. I noticed when I was doing the backup that a new user account had been created so I removed it and then changed all the passwords of the accounts in WP and MySQL. I might still be compromised but I will have to let that wait for another day. Akismet also got updated, but that was way too easy. The NG-Gallery plugin did not need to be upgraded and it still works just fine.
I did the first half of the upgrade process last night and then finished it this morning. I deleted all the spam comments that Akismet had found before I backed up the MySQL database and the WP directories. In the morning Akismet had already blocked another 19 spam comments! That is one plugin I will never live without. Even during the easy and fast upgrade of Akismet one spam comment got through before I managed to get the latest version of Akismet running again.
I found a tool (PIXresizer) to resize and rotate images that works with folders and bulk image processing. Now I can put all 400 or so of my pictures online as well so expect a deluge of pictures in the next couple of weeks.