Welcome to your new Supafine

I finally just grabbed the bull by the balls or whatever the expression is and switched to WordPress.

My cPanel installation has WordPress as a one-click install. I’d been thinking about switching for a while now, because of that oh-so simple install, but I didn’t get around to it til today. My kick in the pants was Paige’s post about the work she did for a friend’s photoblog.

Here are some other pluses:

PHP over Perl/CGI= a good thing for me
bizarrely huge theme/plugin community
plug-and-play, more so than MT
it generates valid code
it’s pretty
the admin interface is super intuitive and easy to use
GUI’s for more things than MT
I was in the mood.

I was definitely in the mood for a redesign, I tell you what. But instead of scraping around and building it by hand [almost as much fun as a swift poke in the eye] I though, Hey fuck it! I’ll switch to Wordpress and use someone else’s theme.

Which is exactly what I did.

The feed’s still bunged up and there a probably a few things what need tweaking, but goddamn. It’s late.

February 27, 2006 | Filed Under check it out, design, geek

Comments

18 Responses to “Welcome to your new Supafine”

jess on February 27th, 2006 2:29 am

Holy Shit! I love it - so much. Paige’s too. I want one MB! Can a less geeky girl like me handle it? Need some pocket money?
supamb on February 27th, 2006 2:43 am

You could totally handle it, especially if you had someone take care of setting it up ‘n’ stuff. After that, it’s cake.
patricia on February 27th, 2006 7:56 am

holy shit squared. i hit a number of my blogroll links and let them load in the background while i checked email. then i started clicking on each window to get caught up on everyone. when i looked at this window i was all “hmm. what site is this? oh damn. she redesigned!”

i really got a lot out of MT for a couple of years and then i outgrew it, or got tired of constantly having to hack into it. it’s a great program but it’s not as customizable as some others, like WP or ExpressionEngine. anyway, things look great. are you missing the sidebar??
paige on February 27th, 2006 8:49 am

Jess let me know if you need help - it’s super easy even without the one click install. I bet you can totally do it.
Ty on February 27th, 2006 9:20 am

Looks great! One question…what happens to all the side bars doo-hickies? I love checking out the “word counts” now and then…oh wait you told me that was a thingy on MT, didn’t you…
supamb on February 27th, 2006 9:56 am

patricia, i can’t claim credit for the design — only in my great taste in choosing it the sidebar is now at the bottom, and it’s pretty empty as you can tell.

One of the problems, ty and jess, is that WP doesn’t have the same plugins as MT, so a lot of customized stuff I used to have I don’t have anymore. I’m kind of liking it clutter free for now, though.
Kira on February 27th, 2006 2:12 pm

welcome on board
Malnurtured Snay on February 27th, 2006 2:50 pm

If you haven’t already, get and install SpamKarma. It’s the BEST.
Phu on February 27th, 2006 6:29 pm

Glad you like the theme:)
Ben on February 27th, 2006 11:09 pm

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Greg on February 28th, 2006 10:23 am

I started using Wordpress recently for another blog, and absolutely love it.
patricia on February 28th, 2006 11:39 pm

clutter free is the way to be in ‘06. let’s put that on a bumper sticker!
supamb on March 1st, 2006 12:16 am

Patricia: Definitely!

Phu, I love it. I don’t even want to tinker with it, it’s that good.

Ben … ?

Greg, I agree with you. I’m just really liking it.
Aaron Brazell on March 2nd, 2006 12:21 am

Congratulations! I lurve WordPress.

Hmmm, gotta wonder what is wrong with your feed. Did you regenerate your permalinks?
Technosailor » She Likes WordPress - Technology, Blogging and Politics on March 2nd, 2006 12:25 am

[…] My fellow blogger, and fellow Baltimoron over at Supafine has finally jumped from MoveableType to WordPress. […]
supamb on March 2nd, 2006 8:49 am

Ah! I forgot to regenerate my permalinks! Thanks, aaron.

Movable Type got in the way last night. I’ll fix it today.
Jesse on March 2nd, 2006 12:50 pm

Good move. very good move
smoking on April 15th, 2006 9:38 pm

I love looking at blogs, I think their is a blog for almost everything now.

smoking joe