Since I sort of hit a minor set back, of not having my UBCD USB key. I postponed XP install on the EEE and decided to tinker with WordPress this evening. I have now tweaked the theme a little to at least get the colours I want. So the next thing on my list was pages. However I quickly discovered putting arbitary PHP, JS and CSS doesn’t work to well. After a bit of googling I quickly discovered that there are plugins to address these problems. So after about 20 minutes of tinkering that was all working. However the styles and block of HTML that WP applies is sort of interfering with my HTML. Take a look at the Music page and you will quickly see what I mean. MT has the mechanism of publishing pages as static files or bind a page to a static file, I haven’t found the equivalent in WP yet.
Other than that with about 3 hours work the site is now fully functional under WP. The next things on the list are the sidebar, I want a flickr feed, facebook, linkedin and twitter profile links, not difficult at all plugins do exist but I will probably have a go at writing my own sidebar plugins. I also need to make it look a little better, the current styling was rushed just to get the theme working like I wanted. Comments are currently off, but once I get the WordPress API key I will re-enable them.
I will plumb in the AdSense under the first post as well since I can. Also just realised that when I did the upgrade to MT4 I wiped out the Google Analytics JS code resulting in no stats for the last couple of months, no biggie really. Not like I get more than a few people reading the blog anyway, fortunately I do have the server logs so I will try to do something to them so I can register the data into Google Analytics, if such a facility exists that is.
