The port of my website to Wordpress is now seemingly complete. I say “seemingly” because there are always going to to be some minor glitches here and there that I’ll have to stamp out. I’m sure I’ll also think of some additions I want to make. The port went fairly smoothly for the most part. My biggest hang ups were getting the styles to work in IE6 (so what else is new?) and figuring out the Wordpress template and theme engine. It’s a beast, but it is a well documented and powerful beast, so it’s not too bad.
My only real complaints are the choice of default wrap tags and the misuse of the “id” attribute in the default Wordpress install. For the most part I’d prefer that wrap tags be off by default so that I can just choose my own. And several items that can be used multiple times in a page were given a default “id” attribute. “id” should only be used on things that occur once on the page. “class” is usually the better choice in my opinion.
Let me know if you see any obvious flaws in the site. I checked it as best I could, but you can never check everything.
I think it is pretty obvious from my previous posts that I am an Obama supporter. However, I’m always listening to differing opinions and views. One person who has entered my radar in a big way is Ron Paul. Running as a Republican, he is considered to be a fringe candidate with little support. However, his candidacy has a very George McGovern feel to it. Much like McGovern, no one is expecting Paul to win, but his message has the same “radical” common sense of McGovern’s campaign over 30 years ago.
Several of Ron Paul’s positions are very intriguing and I find them to be important and very controversial. First Ron Paul is for the abolition of the Federal Reserve system which only serves to keep this country in perpetual debt. Second, he is for the abolition of the income tax and IRS which only serve to complicate the tax code, encourage excessive government spending, and take money from the middle class. Third, he supports a non-interventionist foreign policy and the immediate withdrawl of troops from Iraq and bases from around the world. Finally, he refuses to support any bill that infringes on the rights of citizens to bear arms.
There’s more to Ron Paul. Check out this video introduction.
Well, I’ve got the site mostly up and running. There are still some things that are not finished. The sidebar is a good example, but things seem to be mostly functional. The only major hurdle was realizing that after I installed Wordpress 2.2 yesterday, they decided to release version 2.2.1 today. The upgrade went okay, but I had some theme issues that caused me some grief for about 30 minutes. Let me know if you see any major flaws.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am currently porting my site to Wordpress. Wordpress is a very powerful blogging utility and can also be used as a content management system (which is how I intend to use it). Please bear with me over the next few days and weeks as I work to finish the move.
I decided to fix my site tonight. Previously I had noticed that the blog articles list was all jacked up, so I fixed it. But in the process of fixing that I jacked up the single blog entries and comments. Since I am currently working on porting my site to Wordpress, I had almost decided to not fix the issues. However, tonight I decided that the porting process might take a while and that I should probably fix the site. Turns out it took about 3 minutes and 1 line of code. If you see any further problems, please send me a note.
UPDATE: Errr, that should have been THREE lines of code. Remind me to scroll down next time.
