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  • WordPress

    I’ve just upgraded WordPress from version 1.02 to version 1.2. The upload took about 2 minutes over my broadband connection. Then I used the built-in upgrade software – that took about 25 seconds to execute.
    Which rather knocks the spots off of the last MT upgrade that I did.

  • It seems to be working

    This site now runs on WordPress. If you see anything that is broken, please let me know.

    I’m still sorting out the archives at the moment, and there also seem to be some CSS issues which need fixing. Give me a few days and I’ll get there. I also need to sort out the comments template.

    General comments:

    • install WP in the same directory as your blog if you want an easy life
    • the five minute install certainly works if you are starting a completely new blog – in fact, if you’re a little web-savvy, I reckon you could do it in four!
    • it is possible to run several blogs from one database using multiple installations of WP, in spite of what some of its detractors will tell you
    • the documentation isn’t bad at all
    • importing MT entries is a doddle
    • it’s free, and that has to be a good thing

    Overall, I’d definitely recommend it. It took me about three hours to do the transfer from MT to WP, including revising the templates so that they look something like the site that you are used to.

    UPDATE: I’ve been trying to get a gizmo going so that, if you should try to follow a link on another site that goes to the permalink for an old entry, you get pointed towards its new home. Unfortunately, it seems at the moment to point you to entirely the wrong entry. I am, as they say, working on it.

  • Surgery

    This site may look a little odd for the next few days whilst I change CMS. Bear with me.

  • CMS problems

    I agree with Vaughan. Which is why I expect to convert to WordPress this weekend.

  • Heads up

    You lucky people – five new header graphics, all based on photos I took in Lisbon. Of course, you haven’t seen the Lisbon pictures yet, but hopefully you should get to see them by the weekend.

  • Comments annoyance

    Having spent too long this evening deleting spam comments from this site, I’ve noticed that the spammers tend to prefer just a handful of posts to leave their messages at. Consequently, I’ve decided to shut down comments at just those few posts.
    So, if you find a post in the archives where comments are prohibited, you’ll know why.

  • Back end problem

    I’ve been working on completing the archives on this site, and have made further revelations about the MT problem. It seems that MT is not rebuilding the monthly archives. If I edit an individual post in a particular month, then it rebuilds that month’s archive, but if I select "Rebuild monthly archives" in the rebuild menu, it doesn’t work properly.
    I’m not sure that this will ever be fixed – I’m hoping that the upgrade to MT3.0 (whenever that may be) might fix all this.

  • 5000 ways to be verbose

    1219 days.
    5000 entries.
    One hell of a lot of words.
    Lots of inanity. Occasionally boring. Sometimes controversial. Very rarely amusing. Often personal.

    It’ll be interesting to see if this site makes it to 10000 entries.
    Actually, that’s probably a lie – I doubt that it will be interesting at all.

  • Processed meat product

    33 spam comments in 20 hours. If this continues, I’ll be forced to disable the comments function across the entire site until MT comes up with comments registration.

  • Housekeeping

    I’ve tidied up the individual entry archives. They don’t look quite right, but I’m too tired to figure out what I’ve done wrong. Either way, they’re a hell of a lot smarter than they were.