On with my change trend, I redesigned the structure of this site.
Categories
There are now two sections:
- One for the blog, called quite smartly “Blog”.
- The other, called “Nodes” (not as smart, I know), will contain bits and pieces of information I’d like to gather and don’t have to be on the front page. For me, this is a bit like a closed wiki (but of course, if you want to add something, post a comment or drop me a line.)
I made this because I often want to post about something but don’t have the need or courage to write a full post about it.
This mean I don’t use categories anymore, except for those two. This is now handled solely by Ultimate Tag Warrior’s tags.
Small Changes
I replaced the archives with a sitemap generated with Dagon Design’s Sitemap Generator.
I added a plugin to be able to link directly to other entries and mark stuff to be linked later.
I added an arrow to external links.
You can find more feeds in the sidebar:
- “All entries” to get both Blog and Nodes posts.
- “Blog entries” only.
- “Comments” to subscribe to every comments, every posts has a feed for the comments associated to it too.
As I changed the FeedBurner’s feeds name, please resubscribe to the new ones.
- I had to move a few blog entries to the Nodes section, I put them back on a {{Some reviews|single post}} linking to the nodes entries.
Bad
The worst part is that I had to change the permalink’s structure to achieve that. Changing the permalinks always sucks, beside the 404s that could slip through, every change makes my .htacces bigger with legacy stuff that adds up.
Good
It wouldn’t be honest not to mention I’ve been influenced by Ruy Carmo’s Tao of Mac “bliki”. Although this a much simpler setup than his home made solution and totally lack the content and insight he has.
I’m more than impressed by the {{Wordpress}}’ ability to be customized and modified to my likings. A big thank you to all the plugins developers, e.g. Circle Six Design pluggin includes UTW’s tags in the XML-RPC so I can easily use them in TextMate.