Still finding my feet with Wordpress - it seems powerful enough, but also has a "sticky tape and glue" feel about it. I guess it will feel more mature as it tends towards 3.0. The Blogger import process was a bit bumpy because the built-in one didn't work. I've written up what I had to do instead, but it's a bit confusing so I probably won't post it here. I also messed up the date stamps on my comments and haven't had a chance to fix them yet.
Does anyone know if there are plug-ins that will:
For what it's worth, I'm already using Ultimate Tag Warrior, Widgets (plus Feeds Widget, del.icio.us Widget and Ulitimate Tag Warrior widget) and Post Control and Draft Control.
404 errors for nicely formed URLs like www.tom-carden.co.uk/weblog/2006/01 occasionally show up in my stats. It should be really easy to serve something useful (if I wrote anything that month), but Blogger is currently providing me with archives in the form of www.tom-carden.co.uk/weblog/2006_01_01_archive.php which isn't quite right.
Here's the fix I used, for this blog and my p5 blog, in the .htaccess file for www.tom-carden.co.uk:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^weblog/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/$ weblog/$1_$2_01_archive.php [L]RewriteRule ^p5/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/$ p5/$1_$2_01_archive.php [L]</IfModule>
Your mileage may vary of course, and I'm aware that the above two rules could easily be just one, but this is good enough for now.
You can try it here: /2006/01/ should be the same as 2006_01_01_archive.php. Not sure what to do about unadorned years though - perhaps just point to January?
Blogger's spell-checker doesn't know blog or podcast by default. At least it can learn, but really!
The fabulous Daniel Shiffman has been added to Processing Blogs. I'm a big fan of his course site for The Nature of Code, so it's an honour to have him on board.
In other news, I think the problems with Blogger feeds (empty links and images for some posts) have been fixed with the latest updates to FeedWordpress. Fingers crossed. Unfortunately my cron job for automatically updating the blog has broken, so for the time being I am updating by hand - apologies for the laggy updates.
I also have a new domain for Processing Blogs which I will announce soon.
Like many people, I find that 99% of the time I don't really want or need a blog - I'm happy pouring links into my del.icio.us account instead.
If you subscribe to this blog via a news reader, I can recommend subscribing to my del.icio.us feed too. Since I'm usually pretty diligent at using the extended descriptions as commentary, you'll get more of what I have to say through that channel. I'm not much of a fan of inline del.icio.us links in blog feeds, so I won't be doing that here for the foreseeable future.
Blogger seems to be stepping up once more as my path-of-least-resistance content management tool. I'm now using it to organise my Processing sketches over here.
Honest, at some point I'll design my own template. Just not now.
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