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Merry Christmas!

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It’s not really this nutty every morning

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Mornings at the Races!

This was fun to shoot:

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Manila converted to Drupal

For the last few months I have toyed with the idea of adapting my conversion process to convert a Manila site to Drupal. The code I have does it’s thing with standard APIs supported in WordPress – the same APIs … Continue reading

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Contact Form in WordPress vs Drupal

I recently set up a contact form on a WordPress site – and it reminded me what a rigid process extending WordPress (WP) is. Contact forms running reCAPTCHA protection seem to fair pretty well at cutting spam, so I found a … Continue reading

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Fiji has her forever home!

Our sweet Fiji went to her forever home this weekend. Happy and playful, Fiji is also curious and smart. And did I mention determined. I find her personality irresistible, and so too does her new forever parents. Her description on … Continue reading

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Tucker’s Canon Rock cover

My son just posted a cover of the famous Canon Rock on YouTube:

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Creature comforts for Manila users making the switch to WordPress

I have configured WordPress with a little PHP to provide a few Manila-like features for my conversion clients. ‘Edit this page’ buttons on pages and posts and template modules. Template modules are containers in the page templates that can be … Continue reading

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Major improvements made to Manila conversion process

It has been a long time since I have delivered an update here – but the Manila conversion process has had numerous improvements in the last year. Huge numbers of rendering bugs have been squashed. Much more of the original … Continue reading

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Manila conversion winners and losers

A posted a page to try to give a summary of exactly happens to each type of data stored in a Manila site as it is converted to it’s similar WordPress counterpart: What is converted and what is left behind. … Continue reading

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