Catching up with WordPress

I believe that it’s fairly easy to turn just about any Linux server into a WordPress installation. There is even a port of WordPress for OpenBSD. I thought that I’d try to run Movable Type on OpenBSD, but getting PHP and Perl working with the Web server looks incredibly difficult. If somebody else did this [...]

Why am I writing about Movable Type in WordPress?

I’m using my WordPress blog to write about Movable Type because it’s time for an MT break. I’m suddenly knee-deep in reconfiguring a few dozen Movable Type blogs and find myself baffled by layer upon layer of templates and widgets.
I know there’s a reason why this project uses Movable Type, and I’ll probably figure it [...]

I’ve been using Google Docs

In an effort to have just a little more control over what I write, on which of the many PCs I use I write it, and where I post it (i.e. to one or more of the blogs and other sites to which I’m spreading the news), I started to use Google Docs again.
The problem [...]

A great-looking Ubuntu WordPress blog

I don’t know the first thing about making a WordPress blog look as good as All About Ubuntu, but I’d sure like to learn.
The RSS feeds and tag cloud on the side I could probably do. The theme Digg 3 looks good enough that I just might use it here. I don’t know how he [...]

WordPress’ killer app

The ability to import posts and comments from other blogs is what sets WordPress apart from Blogger
But does it get images, too?
The ability to bring in all my old Blogger posts … and maybe my Movable Type ones, too, would be huge.
I’ll check into the images situation.
You can also export a WordPress blog as XML. [...]

WordPress charges for uploads beyond 50 MB

That’s a way to make money. I don’t anticipate uploading anything beyond JPEGs. So how many images is that? Let’s say the average image is 50 KB. Ten such images would total 500 K, 100 would be 5 MB, and 1,000 would be 50 MB.
But not all images are that big (although some might indeed [...]

WordPress vs. Blogger

I’ve only been doing this for a few hours. It’s too early to tell.
One thing that attracted me to WordPress was the built-in statistics. Not that counting up traffic is what this is all about, because it isn’t.
Right out of the box, I’m not super-impressed by the pre-canned blog “themes” in WordPress. I assumed there [...]