New blog software.
Posted on August 28th, 2007 in Miscellaneous Geekery | 3 Comments »
I’ve updated the blog to use WordPress; Typo just isn’t ready for prime time. I didn’t migrate comments, just articles – but most comments were spam anyway. Also, thanks to the wp-syntax plugin, I’ve got syntax highlighting, yay!
Now to find a better theme. This one (Spotlight) isn’t bad, but I think I could find (or build, if I have time) better.
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Typo not ready for primetime? No argument here and I maintain it.
I’d be grateful if you could let me know what annoyed you most and which version you were using.
Piers:
I don’t want to sound too ungrateful, it’s actually quite nice, and I appreciate the work you guys have put into it.
There were just things some things that popped up which I didn’t have time to dig around and fix. For example, cached pages started not getting updated; I’d delete spam comments and trackbacks in the admin, and they were gone from the database, but the comments still showed up on blog pages. This was probably due to some change on my host, but Typo didn’t have any way to diagnose it – telling it to delete the cache didn’t help, and there weren’t any helpful errors that I saw.
Also, many of the themes I installed were buggy, but I realize that’s not your fault. Again, this is stuff that I probably could have figured out and fixed myself, I just didn’t have the time to spend on it. And it’s not like WordPress has been perfect so far, it’s just been easier to setup and fix.
I believe the version I was using was 4.1.
I wish you guys the best, and I hope to return to Typo one day.
Clarification: I was first using 2.6.0, and then upgraded earlier this year to 4.1.
Ah yes, the caching’s definitely a problem – the state machine that manages comments got screwed up at some point, almost certainly by me.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.