Ok, I may have said I was working on a mysterious new project but at the moment I’m tidying up a couple of sites – this one for a start.

You’ll therefore hopefully notice a few changes…

1. I’ve added topic counts and links to topic-related feeds.
2. The old social bookmarking has been replaced with ShareThis (and thanks to Tony for putting me onto that).

But – and more importantly, but probably not so noticable – I’ve finally gotten around to making my blog valid (i.e. the XHTML. Or most specifically, the sidebar, which is what had the errors in it).

Next up, I’ll be working on the Copy+ site – I’ve already had a tidy up of the forum.

Over the last few days I’ve been making some changes to my WordPress install. Did you notice?

The most obvious, and the last one I implemented, was a post counter. So, yes, right now it looks pretty low but this is starting from scratch – as of about 5:30pm on the 17th July.

I’ve also upgraded my WordPress installation to 2.6. This caused PHP Speedy to break so Leon kindly provided me with a new version. However, I made such a general pigs-ear of the WordPress upgrade that I’ve now also installed an automated upgrader for future. Surely it can’t be any worse than me, can it?

Anyway, WordPress 2.6 brings partial integration with Google Gears – the admin section will cache itself for extra speed. Not quite the offline viewing that Gears is usually used for but it’s a start.

I mentioned the other day that I had “mobilised” this website, so it appears appropriately on, well, mobile phones. The plugin I used in this case is WordPress Mobile Plugin.

However, it’s since occured to me that the ability to actually write entries on my mobile might be handy too (particularly as I now have my Bluetooth keyboard) – the aforementioned plugin doesn’t add that functionality. Some scratching around this morning (including a plugin that simply wouldn’t activate because it caused a “fatal error”) I found something called WPhone Admin Plugin. This works a treat, although it renders it in a very simple wap-style format (which is weird, but according to their forums appears to be the case on the N95).

However, I also tried something called, grandly, “WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack“. It’s supposed to display your page more appropriate on portable devices – specifically the Nintendo DS, Wii and Sony PSP. I activated it and tried it on my Wii… database error. Can’t be good. Deactivated it and all is now well. Hmm.

This mobile malarkey isn’t as simple as you’d think, is it?