Just the other day I was talking about ways to improve Miniblog, and now I'm explaining why I dropped it. Well, dropped is a harsh way of saying it, but it wasn't doing what I needed, so I made with the changing.

Well, to be fair, it was doing everything I needed. Except you couldn't search for links in that neato search thingee over there on the side. Nor could you use the normal site CSS. Plus there were other deficiencies, as I noted in the other story. Mostly, the end-user won't see much of a change, but it'll make my job easier.

That, my friends, is the only thing I care about: make it easier for me. That's the reason for a comment-less, spam-free, database-driven, WordPress site. Ease. To make the site of my dreams, I'd be hand-coding every line, and updating everything with the skill and talent that I've built over the years. But that would take too much time.

Not using Miniblog, as new as this site appears, is bittersweet. What I lose in loyalty I gain in functionality. And, if you get nostalgic, you can always hit up the Miniblog archive. Then bookmark that With a linkness that all the kids are talking about.

ADDED: As an aside, since the K2 theme this site's based off of has built-in connectors for all kinds of plugins and hacks, one of them was a way to put archives in the sidebar. The problem being those very archives would show every category. I just needed the News to show up, so it was more hacking for me, it seemed.

Not really. Some intrepid soul went and explained it so even a person as technophobic as I could understand how to stick one category in the sidebar for WordPress.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-12-23T03:50:47.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
cms: wordpress
custom:
  podPressPostSpecific: 'a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";}'
  similarterms: site miniblog needed make archives wordpress show category search sidebar talking easier dropped based theme added kids bookmark loyalty lose
  _utw_tags_0: 'a:8:{i:0;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:3:"css";}i:1;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:6:"design";}i:2;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:2:"k2";}i:3;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:5:"links";}i:4;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:6:"plugin";}i:5;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:6:"search";}i:6;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:6:"update";}i:7;O:8:"stdClass":1:{s:3:"tag";s:9:"wordpress";}}'