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TechFold is technology discussion, commentary, reviews, and opinions from well outside the valley. There's no koolaid to drink here, and TechFold is not in SL, or on Twitter.

UpcomingDiscs.com: WordPress conversion complete

4,620 DVD reviews, Blu-ray Reviews, HD DVD Reviews, Hardware reviews, Blog Posts, and Game Reviews have been (more or less) successfully converted to WordPress blog posts, and are now live on UpcomingDiscs.com.

If you have a moment, stop by the site - I’d love to hear you’re feedback.

The switch was made for a number of reasons:

- SEO - better page formatting, URL’s, etc etc.
- Consistent platform maintenance (as opposed to the cobbled together nightmare that ran the sight before
- Easier writing and editing (for the reviewers)
- Better commenting and community-esque features (this isn’t fully realized yet)
- Plugins!
- Themes!
- Trackbacks, easier RSS management, automatic link pinging!

Basically, a million and one awesome things. I’m loving it already, and the UpcomingDiscs team is coming around to it quickly too.

I’ve written two posts about the conversion experience so far:

Part One - Category Hierarchies in the WXR Import/Export format
Part Two - Custom Fields

…with more to follow.

That’s it in a nutshell - a big relief to get done! I’ll be resuming more regular posting here on TechFold in the next day or two as the last of tweaks are made to UpcomingDiscs.

-R

Why I Haven’t Posted Much Today: Speaker Reviews

I also write for UpcomingDiscs.com, a DVD review site for which I co-launched. I actually built the whole thing in clunky mysql/php and can’t freaking wait to roll the whole thing over to WordPress. TechFold was partly intended to be a familiarization excercise toward that end. Anyway - tonite I banged out part one of a speaker review (my first hardware review); reviewing home theatre hardware is intense. So -regular techfolding to resume tomorrow.

FYI, for any interested, I also blog on environmental and sustainability issues at WorldChanging Canada.