One of my websites’ logs showed that Jeeves was looking at a domain I’d swear I’ve never posted publicly. Don’t want to invite Google and the like until it is ready for visitors. That meant it was time to do a quick and dirty replacement of what was present on the site (almost nothing).
Having decided that TextPattern’s future licensing did not leave it currently an option for my intended use I thought long and hard about Drupal. Though I’m not a heavy uses of features of which Drupal has many sometimes extras can be bent to an unintended and handy purpose. Not that I had any in mind.
Drupal’s documentation dissuaded me. 1) Installation info was in the Administrator’s Guide rather than near the top. 2) Setting up the MySQL database was discussed only in terms of doing it via a shell account. Not that it wasn’t obvious how to use phpMyAdmin. Those things just confirmed my feelings that Drupal is best left to power users with time and inclination to do it (whatever it might be) for themselves.
So I grabbed the latest WordPress nightly. Installation was easy, even chatty. My only faultfinding would be is that it should made clear that not only should you write your password down you should do so clearly. (My own handwriting looks like something used to record incantations for calling the Goat With A Thousand Young.)
I’m not sure what happened when I changed the admin password. I found myself back at the login screen. I never could get back in. My new password didn’t work. I’ll assume that the randomly generated original password didn’t work because I couldn’t read it.
Using phpMyAdmin I took a look but the password was this long string. Probably some sort of a checksum of the real password. No way for me to decode it. I just cleared the database I’d created and started the install afresh. I spent fifteen minutes trying to get around that and maybe one minute doing it.
I then jumped over to Alex King’s site to grab a three-column layout that had been submitted to the WordPress template contest. Another minute uploading the style sheet and images and I had something to build on.
Then I ran into a hitch. Many, if not all of my entries, will have a php include. Works fine in MT and TextPattern. WordPress keeps inserting a space, killing it. This is probably a security feature. I’ll have to find a way to evade it or search yet again for a small scale CMS/blog package.
Whatever I decide to do WordPress is an attractive, easily setup program. (Though some volunteer needs to get all the documentation in a format similar to MT’s printer friendly edition. Nothing is easier to search. Gosh how I hate wikis.)
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So the entry itself has a PHP include in it? You’d have to add an eval() call to the_content. You may be able to do that as a filter/plugin. That’s not available by default for obvious reasons.
Yeah, I want a php include in every entry. It calls a perl script. I suspect that it works on TextPattern is something that would end the moment Dean Allen gave it a second thought. I may have to use MT or perhaps even a non-weblog tool.
Since Carol Channing had the hit when I was a kid I didn’t install the “Hello Dolly” plugin but could help but smile at something that celebrates Louis Armstrong, one of my cultural heroes.
I actually created the ‘dots’ theme because (surprisingly) no one submitted a good 3 column layout for the competition.
I changed the two images and have it up on a new site I’ve been working on.
Thanks.
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