A few weeks ago I thought to myself, "Hey self you'd better upgrade your WordPress install pretty soon - it's way old." And myself said right back, "Sure, put it on the list, but it won't be easy. The last time you upgraded the sidebar got all screwed up. It will take a least a few hours." Them both of myselves went off to PAX and managed to be out of town as the Wordpress exploit hit over the holiday weekend. (grrr.) Sure enough the site got teh haxx0r3d while I was away. I believe it is fixed now, but a side effect of that fix is that all of the users got nuked away. Your comments were retained, but you'll need to create a new user account in order to post comments again. And since it's a new account I'll get a new moderation request and your comment will be queued until I approve it. Isn't this fun? I think I got everything back into the sidebar but that turned out to be a little tricky, and I didn't have a great template to work from. Let me know if I missed anything. (There are some new bits I turned on while I was in there, but I'm more concerned if anything has disappeared.) On the upside with a more modern install I can start looking at changing the theme. I want to A ) make the display wider, and B ) have a left sidebar so I can balance the page a little better. UPDATE: Oh yeah, this will finally kill off the "Tim's Snarking Post - with Comments" feed that I've been threatening to kill for ages. Since it never worked right really anyway. If you have that feed in your RSS you'll want to update to the new feeds in the sidebar.