(Update to the update: Registration is fixed.)
Tell your sons, tell your daughters, tell your friends, tell your neighbors — I’ve relaunched Sox Machine on a new platform (WordPress MU), and the pros outweigh the cons.
All the details after the jump (and yes, posts can jump now):
Really, there’s just one con — it’ll be an undetermined amount of time until I have the previous years’ worth of posts. I’m guessing I won’t be able to tackle it until the offseason. C’est la vie.
The pros are numerous. In bullet-point form:
- It’s WordPress, which means it’s highly supported and customizations are being developed all the time.
- Comments are threaded — easier to reply to individual posts for more of an actual discussion.
- You can also embed links (using <a> tags) in the comments now.
- The search function is better, which combined with post tagging will make everything more accessible.
- While there’s no mobile version yet, you can post comments by phone.
- There are numerous plugins to create a mobile version, but I haven’t been able to test any of them out.
- E-mail support for lost passwords and such actually work.
And so on. To summarize: This will be better. I’ll just be building on to it as I go.
You’ll still have to register. I know it’s a pain in the ass, but it helps keep the drive-by morons at bay.
I’m up for any more suggestions if you have them. It may be a while until I’m actually able to address them, but now I feel more confident that I’ll, you know, be able to address them.
Thanks for your patience.
-Jim
Welcome back. It’s been a long month!
Posted by arrow | 31. Jul, 2009, 11:43 amFor real. Hope everything runs smoothly from here on out. Good luck, Jim, you’re the best.
Posted by marshlands | 31. Jul, 2009, 1:28 pmGlad to have you back…looking forward to some good baseball dissection
Posted by jeff | 31. Jul, 2009, 2:30 pmGood to have you back Jim. I was scared something happened to you.
Posted by striker | 31. Jul, 2009, 2:57 pmNope. Just punted and started over.
Posted by Jim Margalus | 31. Jul, 2009, 3:57 pmI is all signed up
Posted by The Cheat | 01. Aug, 2009, 1:59 amGlad to see you’re back up and running again.
Posted by Kevbo | 01. Aug, 2009, 2:51 amThank you for getting it restarted and all the hard work you put in.
I can’t get enough of the great pics.
You da’ man.
Posted by iowaoaks | 05. Aug, 2009, 10:20 am…and WordPress is pretty good. I don’t have much ability when it comes to computers and I use it for my business’s website too. It works okay.
Posted by iowaoaks | 05. Aug, 2009, 10:23 amWhy WordPress MU? Why not just WordPress?
Posted by rmlumley | 06. Aug, 2009, 1:14 amBecause I like to be able to manage multiple blogs from the same control panel.
Posted by Jim Margalus | 06. Aug, 2009, 1:24 amSoxmachine and State of the Sox? Are there any others or plans for more?
Posted by rmlumley | 06. Aug, 2009, 8:49 amI’ve been toying with the idea of a separate blog for all farm-related matters.
Posted by Jim Margalus | 06. Aug, 2009, 4:00 pmcouldn’t you just have one blog and use Categories for each subsection?
Posted by rmlumley | 06. Aug, 2009, 8:10 pmHaving everything in one blog would make it harder to search through when writing the book.
Posted by Jim Margalus | 06. Aug, 2009, 9:12 pm