WordPress
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Ported my Radio UserLand Site
It may take some time for the DNS change to propagate, and there are certainly going to be some broken incoming links, but I just finished the bulk of the work to port my Radio UserLand site here. All of the posts from jake.userland.com are in a new Jake’s Radio ‘Blog category, in addition to… Continue reading
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My EditThisPage.com site is now here
Hi all—here’s an update following my previous post asking for some WordPress advice: I pulled the trigger, and now all of the content from Jake.EditThisPage.com is ported over to JakeSavin.com. Amazingly it worked right the first time! When does that ever happen? Most, if not all of the links into the old site now redirect to the… Continue reading
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WordPress vs. Roll-Your-Own Blog Engine
Alex King posted an interesting rebuttal of Santiago Valdarrama’s missive explaining why he’s building his own blog engine. Taken together, these posts pretty much sum up the reasons why I went with self-hosted WordPress, rather than try to roll my own solution, or continue to lope along indefinitely with Manila. A couple of Alex’s points in particular stuck out… 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