WordPress 3.0 Upgrade done

So I spent a 1/2 hour this afternoon and did the upgrade to WordPress 3.0. It went relatively smoothly except for having some plugins that caused problems and needed some TLC. My big issue now that I’m done is “how to move my WordPress install to the root of my domain”.

On the surface this doesn’t seem like it should be that big of a deal. Just pick it up and move it. The problem is that all my urls point to addresses which sit in /wordpress, which is where my blog has always been located. What does that mean? Well to fix it I’m going to have to spend some time playing with rewrite rules and regular expressions to remedy the situation. Big sigh.

My other option is to install WordPress in the site root and have that site be sort of empty and install this blog back into the wordpress directory like it was a sub-blog. While it is simpler, it isn’t an elegant solution in my opinion. Rewrite rules IMHO are a better choice, even if they take longer to make sure they are working right.

Luckily, I don’t have a super burning need to move my blog to the domain root. I mostly would like to do it so I can have more than one blog on the domain, without having multiple WordPress installs. Right now I have multiple installs for some test sites of mine. Getting rid of that would be a good idea, but its going to take some work that I’m not particularly motivated to do right now. Plus, I don’t really need my test sites anymore so I could just as easily pitch them as incorporate them into an single install. So we’ll see what happens based on my available cycles and my motivation level.

In the meantime, the new WordPress is snazzy looking and I’m eager to see what new features I can find besides the multi-blog capabilities.