Can I have my own favicon please?

I don’t like the default favicon used here. Can I set up own favicon? I can do this if I am able to change my theme… I have seen a few blogs around here that have their own custom themes? How did they do that?

Starting trouble…

I have been fiddling around with WordPress and 3 things have annoyed me till now:

1. No CAPTCHA for comments. WordPress does have something for this. I have seen captchas in many WordPress blogs but I am not sure how to enable it.
2. The themes work differently. OK, in this case I am exporting my ‘Drupal’ model and trying to fit WordPress into it but still… I want all my sidebar items to appear even when the individual posts are viewed… This makes it all the more important that I am able to tweak the theme of the blog.
3. I imported some posts from my (abandoned) blogger blog. The posts and comments were imported efforlessly (kudos to the WordPress team!). However I noticed that an author named ‘Varun’ appeared in the list of authors and there is no way I can get rid of him! Aaarggh!

Any pointers or suggestions people?

What am I upto now?

I already have a blog, so you might be wondering what I am doing here. Well… a few weeks ago I heard that the WordPress team was launching a new blog hosting service at WordPress.com. I signed up for an invite and got one yesterday. I decided to try out a few posts here just to test the waters…

So what are my primary motives for blogging here:

1. I don’t plan to change from Drupal to WordPress anytime soon. However I don’t mind checking out WordPress for features I can steal for my blog.
2. A friend of mine wants to try out blogging. But she does not want to be bothered with setting up her own blog and all so I am shopping around for a decent free hosting service on her behalf.
3. If I find that blogging here is much easier than blogging in Drupal I might consider migrating my blog from Drupal to WordPress. But that is a very remote possibility because I am quite happy with Drupal.

A few months back, when I was shopping for the ‘right’ blogging software for myself I did try out WordPress. I found blogging in WordPress to be quite pleasant in general. However I eventually did not use WordPress because:

1. I found installing new modules a bit of a pain. Often I had to delve into the code, copy paste stuff or apply patches. This was a strict no-no for me.
2. I wanted a blogging software but I wanted something more. I wanted software that was excellent at blogging but also a decent enough general CMS. WordPress seems rather limited in these things.

I intend to forget all my previous experiences with WordPress and review it afresh. That way I won’t be biased against it. However having used Drupal for a few months now I will definitely want WordPress to offer me all the features in Drupal that I have got used to.

Right now I have 2 major concerns:

1. Does this service allow me to take a raw dump of my blog data?
2. Can I tweak the theme of the site? I am very much of a ‘me person’ and this blog won’t feel like home till the theme has been tweaked to my linking. No offence to the themes available here, all of them are great, but I want something of my own.