This postI made a cursory attempt to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.5 earlier this morning. Failed. It would get stuck loading the front page, randomly, and so I decided to leave it as-is for now. (Though the interesting thing is that the little sparkline plugin for the stats went haywire and started pumping error messages into the logfile at about one megabyte per second. I naturally started getting worried, because it wouldn’t take long for all my server space to fill up. I removed the logfile and yet it kept growing. So, I SSHed in, ran “ps ax” to get a process list, and found seven processes (”/usr/bin/php wsparkstats.php”) still going. Killed them all and the übergrowth stopped and life is good. But I digress.)
On second thought, however, I’ve been planning on migrating to Mephisto anyway, so it would almost be a waste of time to worry about upgrading WordPress. I just need to set aside a day for pulling it all together. Why Mephisto? It’s on Rails, and it’s lightweight and nice. And let’s not forget customizability. (Which is one of the reasons I want a CMS that uses Rails instead of PHP; I’d much rather code in Ruby. :)) Mephisto has come along far enough that there really isn’t any reason not to switch.
