Switching to Wordpress
When you hit my site today, you probably noticed a few different things. The first thing you noticed may have been that you were whisked away to a new URL. The second, and most noticable, thing was the new design.
Why the new location and look? you ask.
Because I wanted a nice, PHP-powered blog, I reply.
Yes, now I am running Wordpress, a full-featured blogging suite, that includes all those fancy pings and trackbacks that bloggers have come to love. This time, however, I’m running it with style in PHP—along with the nice GNU GPL (two features that Movable Type, my previous software, did not have).
Don’t be dismayed, however. Despite the fact that I have moved the location of my articles and am using new software, I have set up Apache Redirect directives for every page in my “old” site. So, there will be no broken links to my site; just be sure to update your links to the new pages over the next few months. I have yet to move many of the older postings over, and I will be doing that over the next few weeks, but they are still available on the old archives page, and I will implement Redirects for the pages as I move them.
I hope you find this new site better, more easily navigable, and just downright more sexy than the previous one.
3 Comments
Did you consider Serendipity (www.s9y.org), since you seem to enjoy a nice open source license. If you did - why didn't you choose it?
I did consider Serendipity a while back and I know that several big names in PHP are developing and using it (Sterling, George, Wez, etc.), but there were several things about it that I didn't particularly like, the main thing being its handling of templates and all the custom serendipty classes included in the output (there were so many, and I was trying to create my own template; I had to dig through the code and find all the classes that I needed to define, and I still didn't get them all--it was frustrating).
Overall, I just felt that Serendipity was messy and unorganized, while, on the other hand, I really like the job that the guys at Wordpress have done. This could also be attributed to the maturity level of Wordpress (1.2 versus Serendipity's 0.6). Perhaps Serendipity has grown even since I last looked, and perhaps it will grow up into a more mature and even better blogging system--only time will tell.
For now, I'll use Wordpress.
Nice design, and good work on moving to some open source.