BurningbirdI spent time yesterday working with the three sites ported from Movable Type. While I port each individual’s current look, I set up a PHP-based switcher they could use to try out some of the available WordPress Themes. There has been criticism that WP doesn’t look that great out of the box. I think the issue […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well all good things come to an end or some such thing. I had hoped to revive this weblog, but with having to drastically cut costs, car payments take precedence over web sites. This means time for me to start disengaging from this lovely online world. For any updates to […]
Unless I get specific questions, the last post concludes my WordPress to MT coverage. Ultimately we find that the two environments are more compatible than not, as long as you approach conversions methodically. However, I’ve done so many conversions between tools now that I may have forgotten something; so please add questions into the comments. […]
I was reading an email from a friend in Gmail when I looked over at the ads and noticed one for a hosted blogging solution, Blogharbor. I hadn’t heard of it before so out of curiousity I clicked on the link and went to the site. It, like so many other hosted solutions, had a list […]
The two environments, Movable Type and WordPress, are very different. Apart from one using Perl for core functionality, the other PHP, another significant difference is that WordPress uses PHP function calls directly in the template, while MT uses template tags, and then relies on the Smarty Template Engine (more on this in a separate post), […]