This site started out on Movable Type years ago .. When they changed their licensing I switched to Wordpress.. And it was on Wordpress for a couple of years.. until it wasn't anymore. So when I switched it to MovableType back in 2007 the "blogroll" I'd been maintaining disappeared, as MT didn't really have a way of handling it (well it did, but it was messy) so I had a … [Read more...] about Do People Still Use Blogrolls? And Would You Want To Be In Mine?
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A Couple of WordPress Plugins and Tips To Help With Migration
Moving from MovableType to Wordpress involves a bit of fiddling about with redirects. How much fiddling you need to do will vary on your setup. In my case my MovableType URL structure was based loosely on a Wordpress one, as I'd migrated from Wordpress to MovableType previously. Of course if things were that simple life would be a lot easier - and probably a bit more boring … [Read more...] about A Couple of WordPress Plugins and Tips To Help With Migration
Site Revamp (Sort Of)
Due to the lack of ongoing support with MovableType I've decided to move this site back to using Wordpress as it's backend. As I said elsewhere earlier today, I'm still not 100% convinced about Wordpress' security etc., but it is being actively developed, which is more than can be said for MovableType. Moving from MovableType to Wordpress is an "interesting" process, so … [Read more...] about Site Revamp (Sort Of)
Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
For some bizarre reason the Wordpress importer changes the post names from "thing-other-thing" to "thing_other_thing" ie. replacing the dash with an underscore.The simplest way to fix it is to run a bit of SQL directly on the database:update wp_posts set post_name = replace(post_name,'_','-');Thanks to the person who provided the solution here … [Read more...] about Movable Type To WordPress Permalink Oddness
TimThumb and Zemanta Don’t Play Nice Together
Over the last few days I've been testing a few Wordpress themes that use TimThumb for generating thumbnails of both images and video.TimThumb works very well in most situations, though you can run into the odd issue if your directory permissions aren't correct. In order for it to work it has to have somewhere it can store the thumbnail images.. and that has to be writeable by … [Read more...] about TimThumb and Zemanta Don’t Play Nice Together