leyton.org

Well, after battling away most of the day with various idiosyncrasies and not a few misunderstandings on my part, I’ve finally managed to complete my migration from movabletype to wordpress.

I’ve setup two separate installations, one for my personal thoughts and opinions, and another for this technically oriented one. There are .htaccess rewrite rules in place to redirect google searches across to the new (better) naming structure, and some neat-o plugins have been activated to make finding the information much easier.

I’ve rejigged the front page, bringing it into the standard “look and feel” of the theme I’m using (just the default one at the moment, with a few customisations). Only non-trivial item was getting my head around templates and plugins, so that I could pull data from third party sources (as techie musings is, technically, to the template that’s managing the front page), and then rejigging the tables so they didn’t horribly screw everything up.

I’m certainly thinking things are looking a lot crisper and cleaner, not to say a little more sprightly, following the changes. Of course I now have to worry about mySQL quotas being exceeded, but three years of weblog postings only eating 2.5Mb gives me some cause for optimism.

I’ll be working on things a bit more in the next few days, to sort out the various xml feeds, ping services and so on, but in the meantime, please drop me an e-mail or message if things are really badly broken in some way.