Wednesday, 2nd of June, 2004

It’s true! Stumblings has, all of a sudden, become a WordPress blog. Yes, it is basically because of the Movable Type debacle (I host five weblogs with three authors, and it just wasn’t going to be affordable - especially with it looking like a number more were coming).

But frankly, apart from that, WordPress is beautiful anyway. I moved Utility Fog over first, and it was so easy it’s not funny… So here’s Stumblings! Thanks to version 1.2 of WordPress, I’ve been able to keep my recent reading/listening reviews in the sidebar, and pretty much the look is still the same. Big list of monthly links over in the sidebar too…

The one thing I haven’t sorted out yet is the category archives - they’re only showing a few entries each for reading and listening. Not sure why, but I think the simplest solution is to create new template files for them instead of using some fancy-schmancy WordPress stuff - that’ll be easy to implement soon. I also hacked Nick Momrik’s recent-comments plugin to display my 5 last comments in the way I like.
And that’s the thing - WordPress is so nice because it’s all in php and if you like you can go and fiddle with stuff… Admittedly the documentation is… sparse, to say the least. But it’s not too hard to work out what does what, with help from google, WordPress’s support forums, and all those other people who been moving over and documenting their progress - hello Graham!

So, welcome to the new improved Stumblings. Take a seat, make yourself comfortable. I’m going overseas this coming Monday, so hopefully there’ll be exciting diary entries along the way - maybe I’ll even create a new “Tour Diary” category for them!

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1. [Stumblings in the dark] » On moving… says:
   August 24th, 2004 at 8:05 am

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