anthonyjhicks.com v7.0 (beta)

Posted on 22 Nov 2008 in Daily

You should be seeing version 7.0 of anthonyjhicks.com, the seventh major iteration of the site since sometime in 1993-1994 and the first redesign since version 6.0 in December 2003. While many of the URLs still show a Domino NSF structure, this is just Apache mod_rewrite doing it's magic keeping all the old perma-links and search engine links alive - the site is now hosted at Media Temple on their Grid Service and powered by WordPress. WordPress is using the Fresh News theme from WooThemes, combined with LifeStream and the Tan Tan Flickr Photo Album plug-ins, and WordPress for iPhone. LifeStream is pulling updates from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Last.fm, Amazon and more. There's still a few dozen posts that failed to import and I'm not crazy about the videos page, or how tag and category views show only excerpts rather than full posts - more tweaking required. It's good to be off Domino though and able to take advantage of the great selection of WordPress plug-ins, themes and active community of developers constantly adding features - I know I don't have time to tinker with this stuff anymore (outsource!). While I gave up regularly blogging years ago, I will still post here occassionally and keep the running list of events and travel destinations up-to-date. 99% of links should work as before thanks to lots of nifty mod_rewrite rules and a redirect mapping table of over 20,000 entries. All the RSS feeds have moved but if you're reading this in your Reader, then it looks like the redirect to the new feed has worked.

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