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Blogger to WordPress; first thoughts

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

And thus I emerge, blinking, on the other side, having seen things I wish to never see again. Debates on the security risks of chmod 777. Regular expressions. 301 redirects and other such server-side horrors. In all, a testing transition, but one that must surely extend geek cred for another twelve months.

Of course, right now I’m lumbered with a design I don’t like, unsolved 404s on archives and longer-titled posts, and probably a decreased PageRank. Despite all this, I feel good about having made the switch. We all know that Blogger isn’t regarded as a suitable tool for professionals, and frankly I only stuck with it as a result of seven years of inertia. Luckily, WordPress has already elicited a ‘wow’ or two from me (the Import feature was a thing of beauty) and I’m really excited to see what it can do. Early next week I’ll fix the last of the redirects and get knee-deep in CSS…

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"Scheduled maintenance"

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Making a few changes here (notably, making the long overdue move to WordPress). In an Agile* fashion I’m just going to put it live then fix things as I go.

So, for the next few days, you may find a few 404s or empty pages – these will be fixed once I’ve hacked around with my .htaccess. After that, there should be some substantial template improvements as I gently massage the default theme into something I actually like. Bear with me, and I hope you enjoy the changes.

*A convenient euphemism for ‘lazy’, in this instance.

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