Good News
November 19th, 2006Ok, as you can see, this is a completely different show. I’ve been fooling around with WordPress, and this seems like the least bad solution. (Pivot was my next choice, because it doesn’t use a database. If you refuse to use a database, Pivot is another not-too-bad way to go.)
I will be fixing and transitioning things from the old site over here. The file structure of the old site is actually still live on the server.
While Cryptogon’s nearly five years worth of archives will still be available as flat HTML files, they will not be integrated into the WordPress database for the following reasons:
- The WordPress Blogger import tool ignores Blogger’s $BlogItemUrl$ tag, which happens to contain the links to thousands of original sources for the stories I’ve posted over the years. When the WordPress import tool did work—Google/Blogger has broken it now, even for non Blogger Beta users—it simply didn’t parse that data.
- Even if I could import the archives, thousands of links in my posts that refer to other Cryptogon posts would break if the flat HTML files were removed.
After wasting way too much time researching this, I’m going to simply leave the archives where they are and create a WordPress page with pointers to the old files.
I’m no PHP programmer, and I stopped updating my web development skills in 1997. WordPress is the ring of power, so it obviously won’t serve me in the end. But lets see how we go in the interim.
