Welcome to your new Supafine
Posted on | February 27, 2006 18 Comments | e-mail | print
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.
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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?
Reply to thisFebruary 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.
Reply to thisFebruary 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??
Reply to thisFebruary 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.
Reply to thisFebruary 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…
Reply to thisFebruary 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.
Reply to thisFebruary 27th, 2006 @ 2:12 pm
welcome on board
Reply to thisFebruary 27th, 2006 @ 2:50 pm
If you haven’t already, get and install SpamKarma. It’s the BEST.
Reply to thisFebruary 27th, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
Glad you like the theme:)
Reply to thisFebruary 27th, 2006 @ 11:09 pm
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Reply to thisFebruary 28th, 2006 @ 10:23 am
I started using Wordpress recently for another blog, and absolutely love it.
Reply to thisFebruary 28th, 2006 @ 11:39 pm
clutter free is the way to be in ‘06. let’s put that on a bumper sticker!
Reply to thisMarch 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.
Reply to thisMarch 2nd, 2006 @ 12:21 am
Congratulations! I lurve WordPress.
Hmmm, gotta wonder what is wrong with your feed. Did you regenerate your permalinks?
Reply to thisMarch 2nd, 2006 @ 12:25 am
[…] My fellow blogger, and fellow Baltimoron over at Supafine has finally jumped from MoveableType to WordPress. […]
Reply to thisMarch 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.
Reply to thisMarch 2nd, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
Good move. very good move
Reply to thisApril 15th, 2006 @ 9:38 pm
I love looking at blogs, I think their is a blog for almost everything now.
smoking joe
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