I figured I’d maintain a changelog for The Ed Zone, even if it is just for my reference. After all, this is nerdery in its finest form — Sean
3/31/13
- Updated Jetpack
- Updated BackUpWordPress plugin
3/7/13
- Deactivated WordPress Database Backup plugin
- Installed BackUpWordPress plugin
3/5/13
- Updated to WordPress 3.5.1
- Updated Akismet and Jetpack
- Updated Google XML Sitemaps and Most Popular Posts plugins
12/12/12
- Updated to WordPress 3.5
12/01/2012
- Updated Jetpack
- Deactivated WPtouch plugin
10/29/2012
- Updated Jetpack
- Updated Most Popular Posts plugin
9/16/2012
- Updated to WordPress 3.4.2
- Updated Jetpack
8/20/2012
- Updated Google XML Sitemaps plugin
8/6/2012
- Updated Jetpack
7/3/2012
- Updated to WordPress 3.4.1
6/23/2012
- Updated Jetpack
- Changed theme to use static page settings for front and posts pages
- Added appropriate links to main navigation for Home and Blog pages
- Split up comments and pingbacks on the post pages
6/16/2012
- Updated to WordPress 3.4
- Updated Jetpack
- Activated Jetpack Comments widget
6/9/2012
- Updated WPtouch plugin
5/28/2012
- Added a Contact form using Jetpack
- Added Pinterest buttons to home and post pages
5/27/2012
- Updated Jetpack
4/29/2012
- Updated Akismet plugin
4/25/2012
- Updated to WordPress 3.2.2
- Updated Jetpack
- Updated Google XML Sitemaps and WPtouch plugins
4/14/2012
- Updated Jetpack
2/20/2012
- Updated theme to make menu bar fixed with a sliding logo to pages that have a menu
2/18/2012
- Updated WPtouch plugin
1/29/2012
- ZonEd 5 theme is implemented in honor of six years of blogging here. First theme update since 3/30/2009!
- Added Most Popular Posts and Email Subscribe (from Jetpack) widgets
- Adjusted some settings in WPtouch and added new logo icon
- Updated Mint to 2.19 and the Nametags, User Agent 007 and iPhone peppers
1/28/2012
- Updated Extended Comment Options and WPtouch plugins
1/15/2012
- Updated to WordPress 3.3.1
- Updated Akismet and WPtouch plugins
1/2/2012
- Installed Jetpack
- Deleted WordPress.com Stats plugin (now included in Jetpack)
12/26/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.3
- Upgraded flickrRSS plugin
10/26/2011
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
10/1/2011
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps, WordPress.com Stats and WPtouch plugins
8/7/2011
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps and WPtouch plugins
7/12/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.2.1
7/8/2011
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
7/5/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.2
6/30/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.1.4
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
5/25/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.1.3
4/26/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.1.2
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
4/5/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.1.1
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
2/23/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.1
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
2/11/2011
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.5
- Upgraded Akismet, WordPress.com Stats and WPtouch plugins
- Deactivated flickrRSS plugin
1/12/2011
- Removed Flickr photos
- Moved About blurb to footer for pagers other than home to replace Flickr photos
12/31/2010
- Upgraded Akismet, WordPressDatabase Backup and WPtouch plugins
12/29/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.4
12/10/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.3
- Upgraded Akismet and WPtouch plugins
12/1/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.2
- Upgraded Akismet, WordPress.com Stats and WPtouch plugins
- Deleted Analytics360 plugin
8/15/2010
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats and WPtouch plugins
- Deactivated Analytics360 plugin
- Fixed Next and Previous page links on list pages
8/2/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1
7/14/2010
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
7/5/2010
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
6/21/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 3.0
- Upgraded Akismet and WordPress.com Stats plugins
6/9/2010
- Upgraded Akismet, Google XML Sitemaps and WPtouch plugins
5/6/2010
- Upgraded WPtouch plugin
4/29/2010
- Installed WPtouch plugin
- Upgraded Analytics360 plugin
4/18/2010
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
4/1/2010
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
3/12/2010
- Upgraded Analytics360 plugin
2/24/2010
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
2/15/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.2
1/20/2010
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
- Removed Click Tags, Easy Gravatars and WP-RSSImport plugins
1/4/2010
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.9.1
12/28/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.9
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps and WordPress.com Stats plugins
11/25/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
11/15/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
11/12/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.6
11/10/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
10/30/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
10/20/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.5
10/10/2009
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats and WP-RSSImport plugins
9/5/2009
- Upgraded Analytics360 and Google XML Sitemaps plugins
- Upgraded User Agent 007 pepper for Mint
8/12/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.4
- Upgraded Analytics360 plugin
8/3/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.3
7/20/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.2
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
7/19/2009
- Upgraded WP-RSSImport plugin
- Upgraded Default pepper for Mint
7/14/2009
- Upgraded to PHP 5.2.6 from PHP 4.4.9
- Installed Analytics360 plugin
7/13/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1
- Upgraded Akismet and WordPress.com Stats plugins
6/23/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
6/20/2009
- Upgraded WP-RSSImport plugin
6/15/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.8
- Upgraded WP-RSSImport plugin
6/7/2009
- Upgraded Google XML Sitemaps plugin
6/3/2009
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
5/27/2009
- Upgraded WP-RSSImport plugin
5/8/2009
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
5/6/2009
- Upgraded flickrRSS and WP-RSSImport plugins
4/26/2009
- Upgraded Extended Comment Options, WordPress.com Stats and WP-RSSImport plugins
4/12/2009
- Upgraded to Mint 2.17
4/10/2009
- Changed Google Analytics from urchin.js to ga.js
3/30/2009
- Zoned 4.0 is implemented in honor of the 4th year of blogging here. I also like to think of this one as Narcissism 1.0. Oh, and there’s some Google AdSense here just to be evil. You know… like Google.
3/29/2009
- Installed Google XML Sitemaps plugin
2/28/2009
- Upgraded Crush pepper for Mint
2/13/2009
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
2/10/2009
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1
2/8/2009
- Upgraded flickrRSS plugin
1/30/2009
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
1/17/2009
- Added a modified version of Most Popular plugin
- Added Recent Popular Posts blocks to sidebar of most pages
12/19/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.7
- Removed Easy Gravatars, Comment Timeout and WP-RSSImport plugins
- Template changes for 2.7
- Use built-in avatar support instead of plugin
- Upgraded to Mint 2.16
12/10/2008
- Upgraded WordPressDatabase Backup plugin
12/5/2008
- Upgraded Akismet and WordPress.com Stats plugins
11/28/2008
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
11/26/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5
11/20/2008
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
10/24/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.3
10/21/2008
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
9/9/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.2
9/4/2008
- Upgraded Akismet, RSS Import and WordPressDatabase Backup plugins
- Deactivated RSS Import plugin since Avault started redirecting all feeds to Feedburner and we can no longer get an exclusive feed of Ed’s Avault posts
- Removed the “Ed @ Avault” section from the sidebar and added a link to his category in the Blogroll instead
8/21/2008
- Upgraded WordPressDatabase Backup plugin
8/17/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.1
8/2/2008
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
7/18/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.6
7/11/2008
- Upgraded Akismet and WordPress.com Stats plugins
6/1/2008
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
5/3/2008
- Upgraded Customizable Comment Listings, flickrRSS and WordPress.com Stats plugins
4/26/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1
4/4/2008
- Upgraded WordPress.com Stats plugin
4/2/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
3/30/2008
- Upgraded Click Tags plugin
3/9/2008
- Display expanded excerpt with images on front page
- Added footer logo
- Added favicon
- Figured out why Next and Previous page links were not working on Main template and fixed
- Upgraded Easy Gravatar plugin
3/4/2008
- Squashed a bug for left-creeping comments in IE6 (see 3/2/2006 for same issue). This time I will say that it was due to padding-bottom on the list element. WTF!
2/29/2008
- In honor of this blog’s 2nd anniversary (a month late), the design was updated to ZonEd 3.0!
- Added plugins for RSSImport, Xbox Gamercard and Gravatars.
2/17/2008
- Upgraded Akismet plugin
2/6/2008
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3
12/29/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2
12/8/2007
- Gave the design a holiday flair to celebrate the season
- Blogroll uses upgraded listing function
- Tag list/archive page now handles title correctly
10/28/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1
10/14/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.3
- Upgraded some plug-ins
- Added a spot to display Tags in the template
9/9/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.3
8/6/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.2
6/23/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.2.1
5/17/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.2
4/24/2007
- Added the Comment Timeout plug-in to help kill some spam comments that are getting past Akismet
4/4/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3
3/3/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2
3/2/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1
2/25/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1
1/29/2007
- In honor of this blog’s 1st anniversary, the design was updated to ZonEd 2.0!
1/18/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.7
1/8/2007
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6
11/1/2006
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.5
9/15/2006
- Fixed a little bug that prevented searching from pages other than the home page. All I did was add a single slash. I hate when that happens!
8/3/2006
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4
6/9/2006
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.3
- Upgraded to Mint 1.29
4/4/2006
- Added Google Analytics
3/17/2006
- Added Last 100 Comments page in honor of reaching 100 comments (thanks to JFCC) and Ed’s first real spam comment (conicidentally ocurring on the same day)
- Added link to Last 100 Comments below Recent Comments in footerbar
- Removed border and padding from Smiley images when they appear in full post body
- Added the Mint stat tracking software in honor of St. Patricks Day (they’re both green???)
- Added a DreamHost link and the template name to the footer
- Added this Changelog!
3/11/2006
- Added the display of two more flickr thumbnails to make four (hopefully this will help readers more easily identify when new photos show up)
- Permalinks changed to use year/month/name instead of post ID
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2
- Moved site hosting to DreamHost
3/8/2006
- Added blockquote style (oops, should have been there from the start)
3/2/2006
- Added the rating plug-in with modification to show different images for different categories
- Squashed a bug for left-creeping comments in IE
- Removed the Entries and Comments RSS links from footer
- Added the blogroll and categories to the footer bar
- Added an archives page
- Changed heading fonts from Trebuchet MS to Georgia
Prior to 3/2/2006
- No idea. Be happy I remembered the stuff above and figured out the dates!
2/27/2006
- Switched from the fSimple theme to ZonEd 1.0 custom design by Sean
1/29/2006
- Ed writes his first post and The Ed Zone is born!