Saturday, December 30th, 2006...7:52 pm

New Year, New Software, New Look

I warned you that it might be coming. The new year isn’t quite here yet, but the new weblog is (mostly, anyway).

Thanks to Geren and Mike for assistance in understanding how WordPress works.

4 Comments

Filed under Weblogging, WordPress

4 Comments

  • Steve Kirks
    December 31st, 2006 at 3:37 pm

    Who’s your host? By the way, my aggregator picked your new feed URL just fine.

  • Steven
    December 31st, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    My whole family uses HostingMatters, http://hostmatters.com/web_hosting.htm, and they’ve always given us great service.

    WordPress was a breeze to set up; HM has it already installed on their systems and has a tool in their control panel to easily install it (along with lots of other software).

    As for the feed, WordPress uses a different URL to provide feeds but I was able to put entries in .htaccess to redirect your aggregator. There are a whole lot of broken links on my site and others’ because of the difference between Blogger’s URL scheme for archived posts and WordPress’, but I *hope* to be able to figure out another rule to take care of that too.

  • Geren
    January 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pm

    Steve,

    You can design your own permalink under Options => Permalinks in the dahsboard. The documentation for that is here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

  • Steven
    January 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    actually, these *are* custom URLs. WP’s default ones are pretty horrible. :-)