WordPress, wow!
This is a new blog, as is my other project, wikilinks.org. I had been wanting to do this for a while. The blog to record my thoughts, because my memory is really bad, and a wiki to keep track of all the titbits of information if find on the Internet. A bit of a link resource, or my list of bookmarks, extended.
First step was to find a host. That was quite easy: dreamhost. They had the perfect package for me: 3 domains, php, mysql, one click install for [Wordpress] and one click install for [mediawiki]. Easy peasy… or so I thought.
Being a bit of a web standards / usability / accessiblity type person, I had a few requirements for the wiki, like permalinks (clean URLs) for example. The one click install requires you to run PHP as CGI with dreamhosts, so this meant mod_rewrite. I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER! mod_rewrite goes straight over my head. The upshot is that I have spent about 6 hours working something out that I’m sort of happy with.
I had the same requirement for WordPress. I came across it as a checkbox in the preferences, ticked it and it worked. A bit later I was uploading some stuff to the blog’s domain, and I come across a .htaccess file that I hadn’t put there. I have a look and hey, WordPress] has done the whole mod_rewrite thing for me!