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
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So Which Theme Is Best?
I'm currently trying to decide which Wordpress theme to use on here. I've been playing around with some of the premium ones from Woothemes and Elegant Themes, but I'm not sure which one to settle on :( (I'm also trying to work out why some pages are being redirected to the wrong place.. ) … [Read more...] about So Which Theme Is Best?
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