Sharp and ready

You know what they say: as soon as you’re about to reach the finish line they move the goal post. But that’s just to push you a little harder, a little further – and perhaps a little faster. All for the good. And so it is with getting this site ready for co-authoring. All is ready but WordPress is about to make a major upgrade by merging the stand-alone and Multi-User platforms, said to be launched in April as WordPress 3.0. This might mean a slight difference in the way categories are structured. Since it’s just a few sleeps away, [more...]

Import HTML pages into WordPress

WordPress has some cool import and export tools but none of which are for importing HTML pages into your new WordPress platform. So, the obvious thing is to head over to the WordPress Plugin Directory and search for one. There you will find a plugin called Import HTML Pages. Installed here, it imported about a thousand HTML pages in just a second or two. However, the content of the resulting posts were only dots and dashes – no words or any other content. Heading over to the plugin support page on Sillybean and it seems as if most people got [more...]

Stepping from one platform to another

Thanks for visiting. You probably noticed a lot of strange going-ons. The reason is that the site is being transferred from one platform to another. After a stint on the marvelous MODx platform the move is being made to the Multi-User version of WordPress to allow co-authoring. The decision was made simply because interested co-authors expressed a preference for the platform they are used to, outnumbering the site owner by a gazillion to one :)
Hope you can join us soon to share your knowledge.