Progress report

Observant readers will have noticed that I still haven’t tweaked the site’s design from the WordPress default. I did spend a little while playing with a couple of alternative templates, and I’ve made two really minor CSS tweaks, but it’s still basically the out-of-the-box design I started with. It’s pretty clear that I’m going to want to teach myself some PHP and read the WordPress documentation before I can do a proper site overhaul under my own steam, so in the meantime those of you who like the default design can be happy that it’s going to be sticking around for a few days at least, and possibly longer. Those of you who hate the current look will just have to bear with me, I’m afraid. Unfortunately as this switch in software platforms was forced on my at short notice I haven’t have the opportunity to plan the migration as I did when I switched to MT, so it may be a little while before everything settles down. The main thing is that (as far as I can tell) everything seems to be working on the WordPress end of the site, which is the main thing.

As I can no longer reliably log into my Movable Type installation, I’m going to have to spend some time fiddling with Perl so that I can strip out all the bits of the existing entries which call Movable Type (i.e. trackbacks, comments, links that use Movable Type’s comment redirection feature) so that I’m left with a set of pure HTML pages which I can leave up and link to off the current version of the sidebar, in much the same way that there was a link on the old version of my site’s front page to the entries at thebeard.org. Have patience: I’ll get there in the end.