{"id":311,"date":"2005-04-10T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/11\/new-blog-software\/"},"modified":"2005-04-10T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T05:49:59","slug":"new-blog-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/10\/new-blog-software\/","title":{"rendered":"New blog software"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case any of my readers were wondering why I haven’t updated in a while, the reason should now be evident. I finally broke down last week and admitted to myself that I was never, ever going to set up my own server at home, so I should just pay somebody to do it for me. I went with TextDrive<\/a>, because they had everything I wanted for a reasonable price. <\/p>\n

I moved perlick.org<\/a> and dorkbutt.com<\/a> immediately to figure out how the DNS transfer would work (the answer, trivially), and then moved nehrlich.com over. Then it was on to the real challenge – getting a new set of blogging software to work right.<\/p>\n

I chose WordPress<\/a>, because they’re open source, and because MovableType has that wacky license thing going these days. Downloaded it, set it up in a test space<\/a>, and started messing around. It was remarkably easy to set up. It was more of a pain to get it to look the way I wanted it to. I still don’t understand CSS, but I trial-and-error’d my way to something approximating what I wanted.<\/p>\n

And, even better, it was trivial to import all of my old posts. So now everything should be in here. Some of the old links may have broken slightly – they should get you to the right page, but not to the right post any more. But that’s life. Otherwise, everything should be pretty much indistinguishable. Except that now I have comments, a much better interface, and a lot more flexibility in how I do things. I can put posts into multiple categories, I can save drafts and update them later and stuff. So I think it all works. And I even figured out how to make the RSS feed stay the same, so if you read this from afar, you shouldn’t notice any difference. I hope.<\/p>\n

Oh, and one new feature in the sidebar. Christopher Allen<\/a> pointed me towards RSS Digest<\/a> as an easy way to get my del.icio.us<\/a> links displayed in the sidebar. So I did it. It’s a free service, asking only for a linkback, so I’m doing that here.<\/p>\n

Let me know if anything looks broken. email is fine. Or comment! Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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