November 17, 2005
First Post
Those of you who have been holding their breath, waiting for me to update my site, can finally relax. I’ve started over on Dreamhost (a kickass $7.95/month hosting service) and based the site on WordPress. The plan is to have WordPress handle the common tasks of updating page content and news, giving me more time to work on other projects on the site.
I’m starting off with the following WordPress plug-ins:
- CaptCha! - for comment spam blocking
- inlineRSS - to quickly add feeds
- last.fm recent tracks - until I can write some code to cache my tracks in MySQL and display them grouped into albums
- Search Pages - to allow the search functionality to work site-wide and not just on blog entries
- Spelling Checker - adds aspell spell-checking to blog entries
If you can recommend any other useful plug-ins, please leave a comment.
Tags: Web Development
Thanks for the plug! If you have any issues with or requests for inlineRSS, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line.
Useful plug-ins? I like include_page to put a static but maintainable entry at the top (or bottom) of my main template. In theory, inlineRSS could do this as well, but we would need a .php page that generated raw entries without any formatting. Not a bad idea, actually.
Yes thanks for the plug
I may add different feed options and album art myself first but if you extend the plugin please keep me up to date. You wouldn’t need mysql to split into albums b.t.w. you could store that in the same cache file…