L is for Linux, A is for Apache, and P is for PHP Before providing instructions for two of the tweaks I made to WordPress 1.2–multiple weblog emulated support and generating static pages–I need to spend some time on the issue of permissions and writing to directories from a PHP application. Typically, when a web […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Last week Liz Lawley wrote what I thought was a very thoughtful piece, both at her weblog and at Many-to-Many. She wrote: I think we’re watching a significant moment in weblog history. Justified or not, the anger among MovableType’s users will push many of them to new tools, and has permanently changed the […]
P is for PHP Right about now I imagine all those folks who downloaded the promotional free versions of ExpressionEngine given out over the weekend are finding something out: not all PHP is ‘open’. PHP source code can be encrypted so that the source code cannot be viewed, much less edited or copied. From the bit of […]
I’ve become so caught up in the comradery of the WordPress effort, that someone only need mention something and I’m off coding it. However, I can’t put all my time into ‘tweaking’–much as I’d like to. I have other things demanding immediate attention, and the rest of the LAMP essays and code tweaks will have […]
Carthik.net has a good summary on must reads for moving from Movable Type to WordPress. LibraryPlanet just wrote up a migration strategy (and provided code) that encompasses how to use WordPress 1.2 new slug feature to support the MT keyword-based shorter file names. If anyone else has any links related specifically to exporting out of MT and importing […]