The Link

The project

I’ve had an ongoing relationship with Tim Matcham for a while now, having done a little maintenance here and there on The Garden Network over the past year. Tim approached me with a view to giving his site a bit of an overhaul, and wanted to incorporate his wordpress hosted blog at the same time.

With limitations imposed by his current hosting provider, Tim decided to move to my servers and asked me to organise the migration of his site and blog and to sugest possible ideas for a ‘freshen up’. After a brief discussion, we decided that the best course of action would be to hack around an existing theme to get it to look and function in the way we wanted. This gave a site that reflected Tim’s branding, but with minimal development costs.

The Geek Stuff

The site has been built using WordPress as a content management system (CMS), and uses a modified version of the Cutline WordPress Theme and various pre-built plugins including WP-sIFR. The WP export tool made bringing across all the blog posts, pages and comments an absolute breeze, until a bunch of folks decided to add more comments before I had a chance to go live. This meant trying to grab just a handful of comments from a sprawling XML file to import. Quite a pain – it would be nice to see some functionality added to the export tool in WP that allowed limitation my date or post type. All or Nothing can prove quite problematic at times. Still, we get by…

Safe.