{"id":857,"date":"2008-12-03T16:53:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/03\/now-powered-by-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T08:53:05","slug":"now-powered-by-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/03\/now-powered-by-wordpress","title":{"rendered":"Now powered by WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, during my downtime, I&#8217;ve been slowly migrating the blog to a new system <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_857_1('footnote_plugin_reference_857_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_857_1('footnote_plugin_reference_857_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_857_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_857_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">doesn&#8217;t take a rocket scientist to figure out what that system is \ud83d\ude09 <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_857_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_857_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;move&#8221; wasn&#8217;t really prompted by one being superior over the other (i.e. MT vs WP). Truth be told, while migrating it became very clear to me that MovableType was by far the more superior system simply by the way it tackles data-flow processes. The best analogy I could give now is similar to why I still use Windows for my audio recording when I use OS X for everything else: because it&#8217;s more practical.<\/p>\n<p>PC audio apps are cracked left and right whereas OS X audio apps aren&#8217;t as easy to find. Take out the whole piracy aspect out of it, and we have a similar situation: WordPress has more plugins being developed than MovableType <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_857_1('footnote_plugin_reference_857_1_2');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_857_1('footnote_plugin_reference_857_1_2');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_857_1_2\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">2 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_857_1_2\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">or at least the plugins I use<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_857_1_2').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_857_1_2', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>. I initially wanted to <em>upgrade<\/em> to MT 4.x, but when I looked for the plugins I considered to be indispensable, I found that WordPress was the better choice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do another post for my opinion regarding the switch; for now, let me just welcome you to the new system by pointing out the changes.<!--more--><!--\/\/--><\/p>\n<p>I tried my best to make it a seamless transition as far as the visual user-experience goes. So if you don&#8217;t pay much attention to little details, you probably won&#8217;t notice any change &#8211; and that would be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But for the curious here&#8217;s the lowdown:<\/p>\n<h1>Home Page<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Collapse\/Expand button eliminated<br \/>\nIn the old system, you were able to see the fulltext from the home page of the two latest posts by using the <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/51\/180517134_7cccca486a_o.jpg\">expand\/collapse<\/a> button. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of WP, I couldn&#8217;t get them to work.<\/li>\n<li>Simplified Calendar\/Archive listing<br \/>\nThis is actually a step-back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/44\/180517098_b30e6210c4_o.jpg\">old system<\/a>, much less functionality and visual formatting. But I guess the consolation is that it looks <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3217\/3079638646_978dc5fccf_o.gif\">less cluttered<\/a> because of it.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter tweets<br \/>\nIn place of the now gone <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/54\/180517119_61e6091b02_o.jpg\">&#8220;detailed&#8221; archive section<\/a>, we now have a listing of my <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3276\/3078805173_5ec1cb6cdc_o.gif\">latest tweets on Twitter.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Individual post entry page<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3003\/3079639102_ffbc867299_o.gif\">Share post<\/a><br \/>\nThis was primarily done because the cross-posting plugins are hard to control (they post even at <strong>every revision<\/strong>). So I decided to just do it semi manually; by using the <em>AddToAny<\/em> service. It also has the added bonus of any reader being able to link to my entries easily to their own site.<\/li>\n<li>Comments Area\n<ul>\n<li>Slightly improved comment reading area in the sense that posts made by me are now in a <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3239\/3078831979_bfcd624e32_o.gif\">different color scheme<\/a>; which makes looking for answers easier on an active thread.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/3078805543_5fa84ecd3d_o.gif\">new comment form<\/a> is much improved from the <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/59\/192409200_c91cd8546c_o.jpg\">old one<\/a>. It still retains the whole expand\/collapse and live-preview features I put on the old system. But now it has a much better anti-spam engine. And from what I can tell, WordPress now applies the markdown syntax support <em>completely<\/em> in the comments as well (but don&#8217;t quote me on that)<\/li>\n<li>Commenters now have a chance to edit their comments right after they post them. Everyone is given a 5 minute grace-period for making any last minute changes &#8211; this should be a boon for trigger-happy people like me who type away without noticing mistakes in their comments.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>More reliable related posts<br \/>\nThe reason why I called the section &#8220;Probably Related&#8221; was because of how awful the MT plugin matched entries. WP&#8217;s similar posts plugin seems to do a much better job to merit the official &#8220;Related Posts&#8221; header, but I&#8217;ve grown fond of the old wording \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Archives<\/h1>\n<p>Lots of changes here, but mostly due to limitations of WP. Overall, it still does the same job &#8211; only in a different manner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/74\/180517029_4ab140e862_o.jpg\">Yearly archive<\/a> is gone<\/li>\n<li>No more top <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/57\/180516992_844d9f5e49_o.jpg\">&#8220;quick links&#8221;<\/a> on the category archives<\/li>\n<li>Like in the home page, the <a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/51\/180517134_7cccca486a_o.jpg\">expand\/close<\/a> buttons on the <strong>daily archives<\/strong> are now gone \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Sidebar content changed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Globally Affected<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Permalink format is now changed from <code>\/archives\/YYYY\/MM\/YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM(AM\/PM).php<\/code> to <code>\/archives\/YYYY\/MM\/DD\/sanitized-title<\/code>. Don&#8217;t even get me started on this one!<\/li>\n<li>404 pages<br \/>\nThe site is now using 2 sets of 404 pages. In particular, when you hit a 404 in the blog, it will try to suggest some posts while throwing an error (which makes it an <em>even more<\/em> helpful page than before)<\/li>\n<li>CSS tweaked a bit<br \/>\nI&#8217;m only mentioning this because during the migration, I think some formatting was lost&#8230; so you may see some broken old pages (formatting-wise) here and there. If you spot any of that ugliness, please email me a link to the page so I can adjust the code or the CSS to accommodate.<\/li>\n<li>And how could I forget! 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