One reason why I’ve been a bit quiet on this blog is that I’ve been playing around with WordPress, and today I did the switch.
Mind the mess.
One reason I switched (from Movable Type) is because it’s apparently the current thing to do, and another is that this way I work with the way corky is set up, rather than against it (PHP is configured to just work, Perl CGIs require hassling Bo and jumping through some other hoops). A third reason is that the switch is damn easy (simple set-up, simple import – of entries and comments, simple modifying the templates) – at least the proverbial first 80% of the change. The other 20%, as expected, takes the remaining 80% of time (rss feeds, php scripts and links).
This has probably caused broken links, broken pages, and weirdly-formatted entries.
I spent a bit of time looking into ways of fixing all my old permanent links, but googling for pages that this would break, I found that the few links to my blog were already broken by an earlier change I made to my Movable Type configuration (they were to the old-style archives, which were per day rather than per individual entry).
Commentators (I, I mean U) might be pleased to note that this change has replaced the “not-quite-WYSIWYG” editor with a simple text one (it does respects line breaks, though. And it’s very finicky about the HTML tags you can use).