Everything changes
And, lo, everything changes and nothing changes. I’m now using WordPress, and thanks to the people in #wordpress on irc.freenode.org for the help. Sorry, feed readers, that the feed got republished; I don’t know how to avoid that. Let me know if anything changes, and particularly if any URLs have broken.
Looking good - welcome to the wordpress family ;)
87 minutes later
Very nice mate - you kept that one to your self. I like the way your old theme is reflected in this one. Im curious to know how you imported all your old posts, that lived in individual text files, into wordpress. Im thinking you knocked up some crazy lil’ python script yes?
Anyway, as I say, very nice indeed
Ade
2 hours later
Nice dude … I have been a regular reader for some time now and I have to say that this is an amazing improvement. Nice job! Now, just give your icons a makeover and its perfect :P
3 hours later
I need to reapply lots of stuff, like my neat JavaScript comment login thing, and textile and so on, but it’s got me up and running. :)
4 hours later
Oh, and I know I need to get new icons…but I don’t know where to find them. Suggestions welcome…
4 hours later
Blimey Charlie, does this mean you are using the mysql database as well?
5 hours later
Bloody hell, gotta say I’m liking the redesign as well. Some very subtle touches to it. Nice one.
How hard did you find it to go from a custom CMS to WP? Been making the move myself for a while now, but a few stylistic points aside, not entirely sure of the best way to shunt my posts and comments over.
5 hours later
Very nice indeed! Subtle, elegant, and yet modern. Or some arse like that anyway.
5 hours later
Like Ade, I always like a bit of continuity when sites redesign, so I say keep the icons! Or at least, don’t alter them entirely. :) I like the semi-transparent Archives menu too.
6 hours later
Everyone commenting on the niceness of the design needs to be aware that I didn’t do it; it’s the Wordpress theme “Ocadia“, by Rebecca Wei over at Beccary. Send your congratulations to her rather than me, unless what you really like is (a) the icons in the top or (b) that I turned off most of the sidebar, which are both my own work, heh.
Going from a custom CMS to WP: I didn’t have a custom CMS, I had a very very heavily hacked pyblosxom site. However, the import was easy; I wrote a “Movable Type” output format for pyblosxom and then imported the Movable-Type-output-format list of posts and comments into WP, which understands the MT export format. Of course, it wasn’t *quite* that easy, since I had to hack the output format and the WP import script so I could explicitly specify slugs for posts, so that all my permalinks didn’t break. Still, that was the work of two minutes, and I’m not a PHP guru, so anyone who can hack PHP will find it just as easy.
And yes, I’m using MySQL; my aversion to databases applies when a DB isn’t required. Since I’ve got over a thousand posts and nearly four thousand comments, a flat-file approach was starting to feel the pinch a bit.
9 hours later
I’m sure you were never quite such a big fan of PHP either. Anyway, I like what you’ve done with the icons at the top: very neat and compact, and the whole page looks so simple, which you don’t see very often. From someone whose only release from Blosxom will probably be the next version of Blosxom.
23 hours later