LibraryTechtonics

13th Jun 2006

PLA Blog: Extreme Makeover Edition

PLA Blog – "after" screenshot

Originally uploaded by Andrea Mercado.

As you all know, I’ve been spending lots of time moving the PLA Blog from Blogger to WordPress. I’m pleased to say that phase 1 is complete, and the new blog configuration went live yesterday, so check it out. I’d have posted about it yesterday, but as I’ve been saying all weekend, “My little hands are a bit tired of talking with the servers…” ;D

I created a little set of screen shots to show some of the visual changes in the front-end blog, complete with notes showing what toys are created using which plugins.

I do still have some work to do. I’ll be adding image credits to the about page, as per the CC licenses of the photos I used in the rotating header, I need to add some redirects for the static URLs of the old blog setup, there are a few plugins I’d like to add. My plan is to revisit the configuration quarterly, to see if we can/should add functionality through coding changes and plugins, while checking in weekly on plugin updates. I’ve also got a few little PLA Blog-related projects in the works that I’m hoping will be done before ALA.

Speaking of, if you’re interested for blogging for PLA at ALA, drop me a line at PLA and let me know, because I’m recruiting.

I’ll also be posting a more detailed post to the PLA Blog on what’s new and hip sometime today (hopefully), to update our regular readers on the the niftiness. Also, I can’t reiterate enough, if you’re subscribed to the PLA Blog feed, please change your URL to point to http://www.plablog.org/feed/. I hand-coded the old Blogger feed file with a permanent message that reminds everyone of the switch, but there are 385 subscribers through Bloglines alone on the old feed, so I figured I’d mantra the message until I see the numbers changing.

I feel accomplished. Go me.