James Salter

Blog off

I’ve had a blog for a couple of years or so, but recently there’s been precious little activity on it. This was partly due to laziness/time issues, but to a much greater extent I was being hampered by the blog software. When I started using Ublog Reload in 2004 it was pretty much as good as I needed. However, as the blogging world has developed, Ublog got left behind through lack of continued development.

It was missing key features such as pings, comment spam protection and a nice WYSIWYG editor. I ended up writing a whole bunch of code simply to keep it ticking along, but that wasn’t really what I wanted to spend my time doing. So the blog thing just got tedious and became more hassle than it was worth.

Now all (some) of that has changed: I’ve moved over to WordPress which has become one of the stalwarts in the content management world. It’s well supported, driven by a large community and has oodles of plugins available.

Excuse the mess while I move all the content over and get it properly setup. I think I’ve successfully pulled across all the old posts but I haven’t updated all the out-of-date hyperlinks. Unfortunately I can’t find an easy way of bringing over the comments, so think of this as a fresh start.

The really observant amongst you will have noticed the new domain too. That’s purely for technical reasons and the non-blog content will be remaining on jamessalter.me.uk for the foreseeable future.

Fingers crossed for a return to regular blogging!