Updated PHP

Upgraded from PHP 5.2 to 5.3. This stopped the perl hit counter from working. Implemented a PHP hit counter in the ssi folder which seems to do the trick nicely.

On upgrade, the blog was inaccessible, but I just had to reset the password for some reason.

Using RegEx to replace HTML Tags

This regular expression matches the html italic begin and end tags as well as any text between them:
 <i>([^<]+)</i>

This regular expression will replace the found italic tags with beginning and end span tags of class ‘caseName’:
<span class=”caseName”>1</span>

The 1 represents the first group in the find expression (between the parenthesis), thus preserving the text between the tags. This may be unique to the regex in Notepad++. Other regex tools may use $1 instead.

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3218063/notepad-replace-problem