Rough Groove

Bisaya Bloggers

I was following Ilongga70’s link while posting an entry in the Photofriday Challenge: Order when I stumbled the Bisaya Bloggers link in her blog. Ha! I’ve never expected that there is a blog devoted to bloggers from the Visayas but its a good move, never mind if the design and graphics are a bit cheesy :p…

Browsing through the site, it has contributions from various Bisaya bloggers and I was happy to see sites wherein posts are in the vernacular! KURAT!

I joined

Migration to Pixelpost from Wordpress

NOTE: I have long switched back to Wordpress for the photoblog and doesn’t use Pixelpost anymore. Also, Ramin Mehran’s script doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Pixelpost, in the end, proved to be a much better photoblogging tool than current implementations of Wordpress like Pictorialis. Its much simpler and has a great community of developers as well as users that make it a viable alternative. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have anything against Wordpress which is a great regular blogging software. Its just that I haven’t found a template that will fit my photoblogging needs.

I started testing Pixelpost Friday night and until Saturday, while I was successful in installing it, Ramin Mehran’s, script, Import from Wordpress to Pixelpost just seemed not to work without errors. I was already getting exasparated that I just posted at the Pixelpost forum about my problem as well as emailed Ramin. Nice thing about it was that he was quick to reply. Since I still experienced problems with it, I then had him access my server files to take a look on what’s the problem. Fortunately, he has found it, made adjustments, and voila! My photoblog, Binary Silver was now migrated to Pixelpost. I just have to make some minor adjustments as some comments were repeated on all posts.

To Ramin Mehran, one of the developers of Pixelpost 1.4, my wholeheartfelt thanx for your help. You’re a godsend!

The old Binary Silver using Wordpress 1.5.

The new Binary Silver using Pixelpost 1.4 using a template by JLSpurling’s Light White.

Pixelpost?

I’ve been photoblogging for a few months now at Binary Silver but for a few weeks, I’ve been mulling of making a major revision. Wordpress is great for blogging but not really for photoblogging. I don’t have a background on PHP/MySQL and Pictorialis, well, it seems good too, but I’m mulling of jumping into Pictorialis. Now that, is a real photoblogging tool.

But is there a Wordpress importer?

Strayhorn!!!

I’ve just upgraded to Wordpress 1.5, aka, Strayhorn and am now using Manji 2 as the theme. Except for the spam karma plugin that generated the following error whenever I click on a post:

Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/estan/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/spam-karma.php on line 105

everythings normal. By the way, to get rid of the above error, I deactivated spam karma and deleted it from my plug-ins folder. No sweat. Might not need it since current spam prevention in Strayhorn seems robust and active. Haven’t got problems at my other Wordpress 1.5 blog Binary Silver.

Strayhorn is out!

A stable version of Wordpress 1.5, aka, the STRAYHORN, is out! I will be upgrading this blog and Binary Silver to the latest version of this great blogging software by the weekend. Check out Wordpress