I just finished upgrading to the latest release of DasBlog and all seems well. The upgrade process itself could hardly be smoother. There were just a few steps involved...

1. Downloaded the Content, SiteConfig, and Logs folders and placed them into the local web directories.
2. Ran the DasBlog Updater utility to cleanup the Content folder.
3. Ran a diff on the new and old config files... moved the stuff I cared about.
4. Pushed the new web directories up to the server.

Done in under a half hour. It went very smooth and my hats off to Scott, Omar, and the rest of the DasBlog team.

So then I went cruising around to check out some of the new stuff Scott mentioned in his release announcement. One of the things I really like is the ability to disable comments on a post older than a specified number of days. I don't get many comments and most of what does come in is comment-spam on older posts. Hopefully that setting improves things.

There are also a few more themes available than in previous versions. One of these, called Project84Grass, was designed by Jacob Hodges. I liked the general style, but opted to darken it up a bit and add my own header image. It was the first time I've gone into the DasBlog template mechanism and it was much easier than I expected. Swapped out a few images, changed up the stylesheet, and modified a manifest -- and DasBlog picked it up on refresh.

Thanks!