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Mungenet Blogging Platform version 5.0

By Nick Hodge | July 8, 2006

The blog­ging plat­form his­tory of Mungenet:

Ver­sion 1.0: self-coded User­land Fron­tier, ver­sion 2.0: Radio User­land, ver­sion 3.0: blogger.com, ver­sion 4.0: (self coded) mun­gen­eten­gine.

Today, I’ve moved onto plat­form ver­sion 5.0: Word­Press

Rather than re-coding a blog­ging engine to take into account all the Web 2.0 re/write hot­ness — mov­ing to Word­Press was a part-time pro­ject over the space of a week. Based on PHP, writ­ing a plu­gin, import mod­ule and modi­fy­ing the theme was a rel­at­ively easy pro­ject. Word­Press is like a Lego base plate (or plat­form) from which a new mun­genet may emerge.

The bulk of the con­tent on www.nickhodge.com remains in the self-coded mun­gen­eten­gine; and thanks to Apache mod_rewrite, CSS and some other small PHP smarts — Word­Press has snapped into place.

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