No more Wordpress
by Robert Basic on February 9th, 2012
Over the weekend I finally had enough of wordpress and the bloat it
became, so I ended up writing my own blog engine thing. Basically I just
slapped together all the ZF modules and pieces I wrote over the past
few years.
The main goal was that the front end should remain as it was under wordpress. Think I got that part pretty well, even improved it in a few places (for example using sprites for the smaller icons, the header image is finally clickable ...). Gave a short thought about changing the theme, but even tho I'm using it for 3.5 years now, I still like it, so it stays as it is.
The old content is pretty much all here; posts, tags, categories and comments are all imported. I intentionally left out the "pingbacks". Probably will end up writing a separate post just about the importing of the content.
The admin area still needs some work, but it's in usable state. If anyone is interested, the "template" I'm using for the admin area can be found on Github, uses Dojo a lot. I still haven't decided will I end up open sourcing all of the PHP code, don't think there's anything new or "revolutional" in it - just good ol' time proven ZF code.
Currently my main "concern" is the RSS feed, hopefully I didn't break it. If you notice anything broken with the site, please leave a comment or give me a shout on twitter.
Happy hackin'!
The main goal was that the front end should remain as it was under wordpress. Think I got that part pretty well, even improved it in a few places (for example using sprites for the smaller icons, the header image is finally clickable ...). Gave a short thought about changing the theme, but even tho I'm using it for 3.5 years now, I still like it, so it stays as it is.
The old content is pretty much all here; posts, tags, categories and comments are all imported. I intentionally left out the "pingbacks". Probably will end up writing a separate post just about the importing of the content.
The admin area still needs some work, but it's in usable state. If anyone is interested, the "template" I'm using for the admin area can be found on Github, uses Dojo a lot. I still haven't decided will I end up open sourcing all of the PHP code, don't think there's anything new or "revolutional" in it - just good ol' time proven ZF code.
Currently my main "concern" is the RSS feed, hopefully I didn't break it. If you notice anything broken with the site, please leave a comment or give me a shout on twitter.
Happy hackin'!