Upgrading to WicketPixie 1.2 and Onwards

WicketPixie 1.2 is almost ready. One change was the switch from our old AdSense system to one where you simply add the code provided by Google and select the proper placement. Before you upgrade however, you must manually delete the old wik_adsense table from your WordPress database or else you will be bombarded by fatal errors. Using software such as phpMyAdmin will allow you to do this quickly and without pain. If you don’t have phpMyAdmin, talk to your web host about alternatives. Odds are you are provided with some sort of tool to manipulate databases.

Now that is out of the way, I would like to talk about the future of WicketPixie. After numerous talks with Chris, he feels that it should be written from scratch and include plugins that handle EVERYTHING WicketPixie does now (I don’t blame him, things haven’t been working properly recently). I, on the other hand, would prefer to start from scratch and write all that stuff myself. That way, I can have more control over things and ultimately provide a better WordPress theme to you all.

Putting that aside, here’s a list of what might make it into WicketPixie 2.0 (the rewrite):

• Social Stream and more Social-based features on home page instead of latest post.
• Multiple templates, with multiple styles per those templates.
• Speed!
• More monetization capabilities (so far this means more AdSense placements).
• Other stuff I can’t think of right now.

So that’s about it for now, remember to make those database changes before you upgrade to 1.2, and cross your fingers and hope I have periods lacking homework where I can work on 2.0!