Back up and running!
So, this site was down for a couple of weeks, due to an unspecified security flaw in WordPress 2.3, which had compromised a number of the WordPress installations on this server. Not mine – my archives are all still intact – but the sysadmins took the sensible precaution of disabling all wordpress installations on the system. I’ve now reinstalled with the recently-released WordPress 2.5, which apparently fixes the flaw. For anyone else on the SRCF who was affected by this: I’d suggest you speak to the sysadmins before doing anything, as they haven’t sent an official email yet. Obviously, don’t for any reason copy files from the disabled directory into the new one, and check through your DB tables manually for any oddities.
That all said: WordPress 2.5 is FIT. They’ve made plenty of back-end changes: the entire dashboard/admin section looks totally different. It took a few moments to find my way around, but I think on balance that it is a real improvement. It should all look the same from the main page, though. An oddity is that, having installed 2.5 completely from scratch, it somehow remembered my widget settings for the sidebar. I don’t think that should be possible, so let me know if you know why it happened!
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