I’ve moved my blog over from Tumblr to Wordpress, mainly because I wanted to host my blog off of my own web space, and wanted more options and space for content than I had- there’s a few other nice benefits Wordpress gives: Its fast, easy to use, and easy to customise. This theme is based on the default Wordpress install, but it really wasn’t difficult to emulate my main websites look. I also used a little of jquery on the categories and Search options in the sidebar to keep things tidy- click on them on the left to see what I mean.
So now I have all of my blog posts arranged in categories, and each blog post has its own separate page, meaning I can add extra images and video as needed. Its also a lot more search engine friendly, and ties in to Twitter, Vimeo, and the rest of them nicely. For the Wordpress users out there, I’m using Smart Archives on my archives page, a script called “get the image” to display a preview thumbnail for each blog post on the main page, and Fancybox to control my images and galleries on the blog post pages.
Wordpress is open source- you can get it from www.wordpress.com
