After seeing that NanoBlogger 3.3 RC5 came out I started to upgrade to this version. But instead of using my own upgrade notes I took a shortcut and used a simple DirDiff session with ViM to find all the necessary differences. Boy did this cause some problems. NanoBlogger refused to index other years than the current one.

Ofter a small email exchange with Kevin I tried starting NanoBlogger from scratch and then putting in changes one-by-one. After copying my local plug-ins directory ($BLOG_DIR/plugins) I all of a sudden had my problem again. My first thought: o no, I have to debug one of my plug-ins. So I removed all local plugins and started adding my own plug-ins to the local directory. This time everything went well. Now the difference between the current set-up and the previous one is that I had a full repository of plug-ins in $BLOG_DIR/plugins, i.e. all NanoBlogger plug-ins were copied there as well. But the new NanoBlogger provides a standard mechanism to have a local repository of plug-ins. My conclusion therefore is that the duplicate NanoBlogger plug-ins were causing the problems.

Thanks Kevin for taking the time to answer my e-mail and my apologies for taking a shortcut despite the experience I already had with upgrading.

While I was busy re-creating the site I took the opportunity to make some changes:

  1. I started using the nb_default stylesheet. I think it is nicer looking than nb_spring on which my previous style was based.
  2. The styles for the Gallery plug-in and the Code plug-in were put into their own stylesheets and links to these stylesheets were added to the templates in $BLOG_DIR/templates