Get nekkid!
In case you were wondering, today is CSS Naked Day. Wordpress holds up pretty well. By an amazing coincidence, I saw a fat monkey today. And he looked just like you.
if you are reading this, typo is dead.
I’m happy. It feels a lot lot faster, both rendering and in the admin screens.
Quick summary :
- articles and comments came over ok (articles via the RSS importer, comments by hand)
- the theme existed for both typo and wordpress
- google analytics needed pasting into your <head>
- have told wordpress to use the same permalink format as typo did
- set up some 301s for the old typo RSS and atom feeds
Let me know if anything seems wrong. I’ve been tailing access logs and amazingly I do have some readers (!), so don’t be shy.
Things I know are broken but probably won’t fix:
- old Typo URLs for per-article RSS ( I couldn’t see why anyone would want that)
- tags (the RSS importer set them up as categories instead, which I’m fine with)
I’m not delighted about having to run on MySQL (I‘ll be mysqldumping twice a day),but the schema is much saner than typos had become by 4.x. I’ve already fixed up somethings on the mysql command line faster than I could have found them in the web frontend.
ok kids, get in the car
I’ve now officially taken all the shit I’m going to from Typo.
- a seemingly dead codebase
- rubbish antispam
- takes an age to post comments
- takes even longer to delete spam comments (see above points)
- have a cronjob to restart it 4 times a day
(The last point seems to be standard practice for plenty of commercial software I’ve babysat over the years, but I’m not having it here).
To be fair, a lot of the issues are down to running this on a $12/month hosting account – I’ve had to turn off a lot of features to save memory.
I’m in the middle of migrating from Textdrive → Joyent anyway and I refuse to replicate this shambles on the new box.
The plan is to switch over to Wordpress (yes, it’s PHP, but I don’t intend to hack the code at all).
I’m going to pull all the articles over by abusing the RSS feed, so anyone on a reader might see a few (hundred) duplicate posts in the next day or two. Will do my best to preserve permalinks and comments, although tags might go south for a bit.