Manila
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Manila and the OPML Editor
Dave and I released some updates to Manila.root, the version of Manila that runs as a Tool inside the OPML Editor. Instructions and notes are on the Frontier News site: If you’ve been following me for the last couple of months, may have noticed that I’ve been spending some time looking at Manila again. Recently, I completed a set of updates to… Continue reading
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Porting to WordPress Part 3: Code
In the last post on this topic, I discussed some of the differences between Manila and WordPress, and how understanding those differences teased out some of the requirements for this project. In this post I’m going to talk about the design and implementation of a ManilaToWXR Tool, some more requirements that were revealed through the process of building it,… Continue reading
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Porting to WordPress Part 2: Requirements
In my earlier post about porting from Manila to WordPress, I covered some basics around how and why I decided on the approach I took, and some of the requirements for the new site. I’ve made a ton of progress—what you’re reading right now is coming from WordPress 4.0, hosted on my own server—but I’ve been remiss on follow-up… Continue reading
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Porting to WordPress Part 1: Scoping
About a week ago I started a project to port this site from Manila to WordPress. While there are probably very few Manila users still out there who might want to do this, I thought it would still be a useful exercise to document the process here, in case anything I’ve learned might be useful.… Continue reading