Recently I’ve been doing some more “in depth” work with Drupal and I must say I’m very impressed with the power and flexibility of the software. My only problem is that it takes a little while to get my head around some of the new concepts and terminology that Drupal uses. Coming from a Wordpress background (in terms of my most used CMS) I’d say that Drupal is the better choice for any significantly complex CMS site, while Wordpress is much easier to set up and use for a more blog-oriented site. If you haven’t checked out Drupal yet, do yourself a favour and have a look. To save some time and hassle, just install the CCK and Views modules straight away – they’re very handy to have.
Yes, I am finally getting with the 21st century and going mobile. Or my blog is at least. In the sense that it works a lot better on mobile devices now.
I just updated the software running this blog – fairly trivial process, especially when you have the fallback of version control. Wordpress 2.7 is really exactly the same on the frontend but the admin panel has been changed significantly, and for the better I think. For instance, I am writing this directly from the dashboard, rather than going into a full post creation page. Highly recommended upgrade!
I have just finished upgrading the site to use the latest version of WordPress. Overall it was a pretty fast and painless upgrade. The new version most obviously (to me) brings a redesigned admin area and some extra convenience was managing a blog. A good upgrade and well worth the 5 minutes it took to install!
Well, I finally got off my arse and fixed the admin area for my blog. For the last couple weeks I haven’t been able to access it because of some interesting errors telling me that Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) … which I thought was odd seeing as I hadn’t changed anything recently and the fact that it failed to allocate 0.2% of the total available and complained of running out of memory. It turned out that my web host had (finally) upgraded to PHP 5.2 which doesn’t actually explain the errors but it makes me feel better than things randomly stopping working.
So I upped the memory limit for PHP to 16Mb and all is now well. I hope.
I’ve been running version 2.3 of Wordpress for a couple weeks now and I’m getting more accustomed to using tags with my posts. One thing that struck me about the default handling of tags is that, while free form, it’s a bit unwieldy for long term use. For example, you have to remember what you named various tags (”did I use web or internet?”). The Simple Tags plugin gets rid of most of the problems associated with tagging and makes it an absolute joy to use – I’ve been using for editing my posts for a few days now and I love it.