Moving to Wordpress (for a while)
I’ve decided to give WordPress a whirl, as I’d like to get back to learning more about PHP. Seeing as WordPress is built around PHP & MySQL I think it’ll be beneficial to my University studies as it will allow me to learn more PHP while also enjoying myself blogging.
As the architecture behind WordPress is slightly different than Movable Type’s static pages, things will inevitably go missing and URL’s probably won’t work for a while. Hopefully this will be a temporary problem, as I’m sure with a bit of .htaccess tweaking or editing of the PHP I’ll be able to come up with a fix.
I’ll try and keep the feed location the same, but I’m not sure this will be possible, due to the way in which WordPress handles the feed. I’ll put a redirect in place to handle the change.
I want to apologise now for any problems you come across during the transition – Sorry.
Posted on February 28th, 2004 at 9:13 am and filed under Blogging.
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Ryan Parman March 1st, 2004 at 6:42 pm (Permalink)
Very, very nice new design. I really like it. I’ve also been curious about the RSS feed location issue. I’d really like to be able to keep the .xml file.
I’m wondering if there’s a way to write a PHP function that takes the output from the rss.php file, and store it as .xml? I think that’d be a huge help. Doing that, you could maintain both feeds. The .php feed for new readers, and the .xml feed for current readers.
Once I get it installed, that’s one of the first things I’m going to try to hack. If you make any progress before me, let me know.
Chris March 1st, 2004 at 6:50 pm (Permalink)
Thanks Ryan, but I can’t take credit for this design (See here for more info).
I’ll hopefully have mine reconfigured for wordpress in a few weeks I hope… if all goes well anyway. :)
I’m still looking for a fix for the xml feed… will let you know.