Switched over to direct SVN wordpress checkout

Let me know if you see any bugs or whatnot… I just switched over to installing/updating this instance of wordpress using svn… I had been running the the dreamhost one-click install, which worked great, except that upgrading was a major pain once you start customizing your wordpress (cause I got crazy design skillz and all).

Lucky for you, I don’t have the guts (or free time?) to follow trunk. Someone else can do the bleeding for us.

I also upgraded to 2.3.3 while I was back there gunking around in the wp-crunked internals.

And I’m still working upgrading my database from latin1 to utf8 for no real reason other than dreamhost should never have installed the db latin1 in the first place. Wordpress fixed this up back in 2.2… wtf dreamhost?

Letmeno if you see anything weird!

Update: The db is now utf-8. So that means that you can write comments (and I could write posts) in any of the ~650 languages supported by unicode. Changing the db is a pain – you’ve got to convert all text data to binary (via alter table statements), then change the character set for the database, the tables, and the individual columns, and then you’ve got to convert all the binary data back to text. Fun! Good thing this dude wrote a plugin to do it for you. Even though it’s designed and was tested only with WP 2.1 and 2.2, I just used it on 2.3 without any problems… your millage may vary, standard disclaimers apply.