This week I’ve made a few changes behind the scenes to “dana blogs chess,” which I hope will be mostly invisible to readers. As part of a re-design of my whole website, I’ve moved “dana blogs chess” to a new server and updated the version of WordPress from the prehistoric version 2.1 to the current version 3.3.1.
This should enable me to take advantage of more up-to-date plug-ins, if I should decide to do so. For example, I’ve added a new “Print Friendly” plug-in that should make it easy to print individual posts … and just the posts, without all the extra stuff that used to come along with them. Please try it out by clicking on the “Print” icon and let me know what you think.
I don’t intend to look for lots of other plugins, because my goal isn’t to impress readers with bells and whistles. But if you have suggestions for improving the look or functionality of the site, please let me know. (For instance, a number of you urged me for a long time to use a PGN game viewer in my posts. I finally started doing that recently, it worked great, and it didn’t even require a plug-in.)
The only other change I’ve noticed as a result of the upgrade is that the new WordPress doesn’t seem to recognize non-standard characters such as ã or é that were created in the old WordPress editor. I apologize for that inconvenience.
In my next post, I’ll get back to chess. This weekend I’m going to Reno for the 1st annual Larry Evans Memorial tournament (which used to be the Far West Open). I’m sure to blog at least once or twice from the tournament. Stay tuned!
