zabbo

I finally sat down last night and spent a few hours bringing up this WordPress installation. It was refreshingly easy to get going once I remembered how to drive MySQL.

I went down this road because I’ve long been meaning to satisfy my blogging impulses. I certainly enjoy reading what my friends post and like to think that I add to the fun. The old scripts I have been using, though, were clearly past their prime — if ever they had one. WordPress was the clear leader among the candidates to replace the creaky old scripts. In the little time I’ve spent with it I’ve been consistently impressed. It’s the little things like the buttons that automagically close nested tags while editing posts and unobtrusive help text integrated with the interface.

Another desire Alice and I have had is to put up more of the photos we take. Owen Winker’s Exhibit plugin looks like it might fit the bill. It has had its distractingly awkward moments but hopefully it will prove helpful enough that I’ll stop being distracted by them.

I’ve decided to try maintaining all of the content on www.zabbo.net, such as it is, through WordPress. There are a number of plugins which doctor mod_rewrite rules to point static URI trees at WordPress posts that are otherwise hidden. I figure I’ll settle on one by the time there is any content worth putting up. I haven’t bothered to transfer the old content because, well, I have a hard time caring. Maybe I’ll see legions of failed references to the old kernel patches for the NeXT hardware and will be compelled to revive them. Somehow that doesn’t seem particularly likely.

Anyhow, we’ll see how it goes! I’ve had a fun few hours, at the very least.