kidkonia blogs

Let's talk Drupal. Coming from Wordpress, it wasn't much effort to change over. While I haven't tried importing the database yet, the interface has been a non-issue. While the home page isn't a "write a new blog post" kind of thing, there is an option only one sub-level down (right under Create Content). It's clearly a content-management system and not a pure blog: there's plenty of support for non-bloggy things, which I'm heavily considering adding.

The installation was nice and easy: just make an SQL database, navigate to /index.php and wait while it sets up everything for me. There's a lot going on behind the scenes though, as I found out while configuring it later. The permissions system is much deeper than I expected, as is the comment system, posting system, and pretty much every other system. Not in a bad way, of course; it's all quite handy and let me set up an "author" account category for Olothontor and I, so we didn't muck around in the admin account.

One of the first things I did after getting a theme set up and the blogging module enabled was install Markdown support, which was refreshingly easy, just like a Wordpress plugin would be. Just Google'd, downloaded, unzipped, and enabled. Now I can even set Markdown as the default input format, making it that much easier for me to blog (inline HTML doesn't hurt either).

So, that's what's going on. It's probably worth checking out the Where's the old kidkonia? page to answer that question, as it will be the page I update for the status of legacy blog posts.