I converted my “other weblog” over to WP 1.5 yesterday.
I’m planning on doing that here as well. It’s going to be a bit dicey though, as I need to clean up my CSS file anyhow, and to convert the existing blog, I’m not so sure I want to with all the plugins and stuff … so it’ll be a “I’m not sure how I’ll do it” thing.
I like the new functionality of WP 1.5. With it I’ll get my Photolog going again. 🙂
WP 1.5 will have great potential for even better plugins … so if you have WP be sure and get the new version, and if you don’t use WP, consider it, it’s a great tool to use!
The Themes that you can use in WP 1.5 make it more probable that you’ll see this blog in a very slimmed down version at first. I can use any theme out there and have my own design being tweaked in the background. So I can post and have comments and all my content available as I get things going. Just one click in Themes will change the site entirely.
Themes can also be subthemes, having another theme as it’s parent. So say like you have all the content pages coded the way you like … That is your Main Theme, then you can make a theme that uses your Main Theme as the parent, and make the site look different through the use of CSS. You can have a full theme or as many as you like, changing them with one click. Your site will load however you have chosen the theme in your admin section.
I do see this whole upgrade thing as a need to reinvent design, which I’ve been hungering for 🙂 I’m not sure how it’ll end up. It’ll be blue, no doubt, though. 🙂