In the good old days Arseblog was prepared painstakingly each morning by modifying a PHP page in Dreamweaver. Now we’ve moved to WordPress which allows us to add more functionality and features to the site. As there were over 4 years of archives it was impossible to recode those entries and import them into WordPress. The only way it could be done was to copy and paste each day’s post and given 4 years by 1 post every day, more or less, the idea of doing that 1000+ times was not tremendously appealing.
You can now find the old archives here.
So what advantages does WordPress have?
- Each entry will have it’s own page rather than sharing a page with up 15 other posts making it quicker to load.
- The site, from now on, will be fully searchable.
- I can post from anywhere whereas previously I had to have a web design program I can now log in from any computer with a net connection and post. This is also handy for when Tom steps in when I’m away etc.
- The Arses are now linked to each day’s post making them faster and more efficient. We toyed with the idea of using WordPress’s built-in comment system but Tom has done fantastic work integrating the Arses. They’re now much faster and the page loads much more quickly when there are a lot of arses.
- The design is now entirely CSS which means I only need to change one or two templates to modify the look of the entire site rather than having to redo each individual page.
- Peviously columnists like Safety would have to send me an article which I then formatted and made the page for. As soon as I sort that section out he, and others, will be able to log in and post articles when they want.
- In general the site should be faster and more efficient and still chock full of wonderful arsey goodness each day.
So those are the reasons behind the change. There are some things which still need to implemented but I’ll get around to them in the next few days.
If anybody has any comments or suggestions or if you notice anything out of the ordinary just simply email blogger@[removethis]arseblog.com
Finally, big thanks to Tom for all his tech know-how and arse integration and to Peter Gasston for WordPress and CSS help. Cheers, fellas.
Today’s blog to follow in the morning… does that mean there’ll be two first arses?
