Daily Archives: 23 Aug 2008

Switching to WordPress

Well, I finally gave up and installed WordPress for my blog.

Not that anyone knows, because no one but me reads my blog (hour after hour, after lonely old hour…).

I had thought about installing WordPress for quite some time, but my biggest obstacle was the seemingly daunting task of integrating it into my existing site.  It turns out that it was relatively pain-free, and the benefits are very nice, mainly:

  • Handy dandy search
  • Post categories
  • Easy post writing/administration
  • Remembering people who have commented before

My implementation had none of those things (though the comments thing didn’t really matter before, as I currently have a grand total of two comments, and they are from two different people).  I even learned how to write simple widgets so I could put my “of the page load” stuff in the sidebar.

There is still some cleanup work to be done, mainly with the bloated theme style sheet.  Someday I will also categorize my past posts.  Possibly I will be daring and find a new theme.  All in all, I like the “new” blog, though I have no illusions that liking it will make me post any more often.