WordPress is excellent. It installed in a handful of minutes, and it even generated the htaccess rewrite rules I'll need to maintain the "cruft-free" URLs on my blog. All is well in Carringtonland.
Except, of course, that you can't see any of it yet. ;-)
I'm not going to switch over to the WordPress version until January, because migrating the database content would be a pain in my spank-tender bottom. I'll leave all the existing pages up, of course, and all previous "permalinks" will still work. Wouldn't be very perma otherwise, huh?
Last night I dove in and wrote my first pair of WordPress filters. The first enables in-line titles for blog posts, so I can keep the same style I'm using now. The second adds a new <aside> tag, which is how I handle those little indented asides I sometimes make.
aside:
Like this one, for instance.
end of aside
Creating filters for WordPress is very easy: they're just normal PHP functions that you link to the rest of the package with one command. I'm liking it very much.
