I spent some time today and cleaned up the family blog, upgrading the code and switching to a new WordPress plugin, NextGEN Gallery, for displaying images. It integrates much better with the blog than Gallery2 did and is much easier to configure. The evidence is that I was able to add a few albums today in minutes instead of hours.

Pasé algún tiempo hoy y arregle el blog de la familia, limpiando del código y cambiando a un nuevo plugin de WordPress, NextGen Gallery, para mostrar imágenes. Se integra mucho mejor con el blog que Gallery2 y es mucho más fácil de configurar. La prueba es que yo era capaz de añadir algunos albums de fotos hoy en minutos en lugar de horas.

I updated to the latest version of the WordPress blog management software I use (version 2.2) and took the opportunity to spruce up the appearance of the blog a bit with a new theme. I am also in the process of updating the software used for the only family albums (Gallery version 2.2) so that I can more completely integrate the family albums with the website in the future. (NOTE Added October 2009: I have since replaced Gallery with NextGEN Gallery, which is much easier to integrate into WordPress).

I’m moving this blog over to WordPress because:

• It has a much better license. This is a big deal because MoveableType switched to a license where only one blog author was allowed, so Catherine was not allowed to post to the blog using that software. With WordPress this is not a problem, since the license allows multiple authors (and multiple blogs, if I so wish).
• Managing the blogs seems just as easy as MoveableType, easier in some ways.
• It manage changes in site appearance much more easily, since it uses themes, so basically I just select a theme and go.
• As the site has grown in size, adding entries with MoveableType has been kind of a pain since the site has to be “rebuilt” every time there was a change. In WordPress, every page is built on the fly and it is much faster without “rebuilds”… yeah!

Tell me if you see any problems with this site since this was a considerable shift in how the site is managed.

Along with this move, I have changed the name of the blog to “Familia.Cabanela.com”. This seemed to make more sense as Carolina and Zakari are no longer “Babies”. This name won’t actually work as a website address for a few more days.

Because of the comment spamming problem, I have updated to the latest version of MoveableType, which should avoid the problem since it requires verifiable registration of users who want to post comments.

Debido a el problema del Spamming de los comentarios en este blog, he instalado la versión más reciente de MoveableType, que debe evitar el problema porque personas queriendo commentar necesitan registrar para hacerlo.