After upgrading to WordPress 2.1 I did check out some plugin alternatives, before blindly activating or upgrading my existing plugins. Today I came across Top 30 WordPress Plugins in Blogosphere, where the plugins are ranked and explained.

So if you are considering installing WordPress, or already have it and are looking for some good plugins this post at staska.net looks great.

So I finally put off an hour to upgrade to WordPress 2.1. That hour quickly turned into almost three hours, when wp-cache, although “deactivated”, caused havoc to my new installation of WordPress 2.1.

After uploading all the files, I was looking forward to the simple Upgrade script, which wouldn’t show.
I had to go searching forums and others’ failed experiences util I isolated the problem to wp-cache. I ended up having to manually edit several lines, and just give up on running wp-cache for now. Otherwise, I like some of the new face changes of WordPress, and have yet to see

I just updated stepheno.net to WordPress 2.0.6. It appears that some of the initial errors and problems I stumbled upon when I was installing WordPress 2.0.5 for the first time here at one.com are now solved. (My workaround for WP 2.0.5 can be read here: Installing WordPress at one.com).

As visitors may experience, I am still struggling redirecting to my RSS feed at FeedBurner (stepheno.net Migrating to FeedBurner). This has to do with 30x Location awkwardness at one.com, I am working on trying different solutions. I can however state that my feed is accessible directly at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/stepheno

(Also redirecting apparently works sometimes with Google Reader using the url http://stepheno.net/feed .)

You might have stumbled upon a couple problems while trying to install WordPress on your own newly acquired website hosted at one.com. Because of some small limitations in their service, the initial steps at wordpress didn’t work. However the following steps should make your journey through the jungle just a little bit easier.

(Initially following the true guide at WordPress)

1. Creating a database
After inquiring with one.com support I finally had to surrender to the fact that you are restricted to one database and one user at one.com. Shuffling myself after this defeat of a disorganized database for all your desires, the next challenges lay ahead.

2. Config.php
You’ll have to enter the all around databasename, username and password you received in your mail (hint: its the username and password that belong to mysql) Leave localhost as it is.
Personally I decided to change the table_prefix slightly. Rename …sample to config.php

3. Get hold of the plugin: wordpress-205-tuneup and put the plugin into the directory wordpress/wp-content/plugins

4. Upload your wordpress folder to your website. Personally I would keep the wordpress folder for tidiness’ sake, and not upload all the small wp files directly into your root directory.

5. Head over to http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
After naming wordpress and filling in your email it’ll give you a username and password. Here the weird stuff might start.

6. Go to the login url http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-login.php
Type in your username and password and hit enter. In my case it seemed to process, then spewed out a 302 Found document, telling me it had found itself. Well I reload and tred again. Nothing!

7. So I cheated I found the direct url to get to the plugin-page and pasted it in:

http://www.your.site/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php

Find the WordPress 2.0.5 Tune Up plugin in the list and click, Activate, to the right
Again you may be directed to another 302 page, so try hitting reload. It now directed me back to the plugins page and said it was activated.

8. But you’ll want your blog to appear in the root URL. ie. http://www.your.site and NOT http://www.your.site/wordpress . Because you’ll want your visitors to get to your blog as easily as possible.

9. Basically you need to do the following (Details at WordPress)
Go to Site admin -> Options (General)
Change Blog address to: http://www.your.site (stripping /wordpress/)
Click Update options
Then you need to (via ftp) copy index.php and .htaccess from your wordpress folder to your root directory and change the following code in your index.php file:
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); to require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

10. Congratulations, you are now ready to rumble *cough* blog.