For whatever it’s worth, my upgrade to 2.8 didn’t go completely without issue: even though I reported success, my Gallery plugin had some issues with new the version. A quick “automatic upgrade” fixed my issues with it though. So, feeling empowered by these recent successes, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of my underlying (iNove) theme too. It wasn’t quite as easy as the WordPress update was, but still pretty painless. I had to comment out some PHP, make a handful of CSS changes, and upload a few new images, but overall, things are the way I like them.

The new drag and drop Widgets interface is pretty neat. I don’t like how WordPress (or is it my theme??) handles ‘empty’ sections, though: it assumes that if it’s empty, you really want the default widgets there, like Blogroll. In fact, if it’s empty, that means I want it to be empty! I was able to work around this by rearranging my widgets, but it was a tad bit annoying to start.

In other news, we should be finishing up our pool wiring/lighting project today! I’ll have to make another quick trip to Home Depot, but all the hard stuff is done (base wiring, switches, etc.) and all that’s left is drilling a few holes and pulling cables through conduit. The lights themselves are coming out really nice too – I frosted the glass panes with some Valspar Frosting enamel and mounted them directly to my 5×5 PVC post caps.