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(Word)Pressed into service

Friday | February 25, 2005 | 3:10 pm  

heisel.org is now pow­ered by Word­Press 1.5.

I had the site up and run­ning under var­i­ous nightly builds for a while now, and it was mostly pre-​occupied-​idness that delayed me from making the switch.

I love the new Word­Press theme capa­bil­ity. I can hon­estly say I wouldn’t have made the switch if they stuck with the everything-​in-​one-​index-​php-​file approach from 1.2.

I also love the pages system they built. It addresses a need that just about every­body has, and it makes man­ag­ing these pages much easier than the bunch-​of-​index-​templates or seper­ate blog workaround in Mov­able Type.

I’m also a big fan of the Sta­ti­cize Reloaded plugin that gives you alot of the sta­bil­ity of MT’s static pages, but most of the dynamic fun­ness that WP offers.

I wish the inter­face was a little more vertically-​oriented, though. Maybe it’s some­thing intrin­sic about the Web or Web appli­ca­tions. Maybe I’m just used to Mov­able Type, but I find the pre­dom­i­nantly hor­i­zon­tal sec­tions of the Word­Press inter­face jarring.

I also wish that it didn’t have so many bloomin’ wp-*.php files litered all over the root direc­tory. Maybe I’m anal, but I like clean direc­tory struc­tures. I set up my instal­la­tion in a seper­ate folder, but that means I have to man­u­ally edit my .htac­cess any­time I add a new page. But since I haven’t done that in a looooong time, I figure I’m OK there.

My blog­marks now appear through­out the site, as opposed to just on the index. That’s accom­plished by my del.​icio.us importer — that yanks book­marks from del.​icio.us into Word­Press. I’ll write more about it and release the code soon, it could prob­a­bly use some clean up.

Anyway, if things are broken, please con­tact me or post a comment.

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