GlitchNYC

Where’d all the articles go?

October 28th, 2005

Okay, first thing’s first - you can find all my back articles here:

http://www.glitchnyc.com/static

The big advantage of switching to wordpress is the fact that with a mysql database on the back end, pages are rendering much faster. Various search engines have been crawling my site like crazy, and while I like being listed, it was really starting to bog down the server as blosxom attempted to render all the articles from 2003 at one go, then all the articles of 2004, then all the articles from January 2004, ad nauseum.

That said, that system worked very nicely for getting picked up by Google, and I still get a kick out of coming up as the #1 site for the words “dorky teen“

I’m not sure if I’m going to import the back articles into WordPress or not, but for now, they’re frozen here, rendered as static HTML, and all old links will continue to work in perpetuity.

I’m really enjoying WordPress. The markdown plugin alone is making my life much easier, and I’m loving the trackbacks feature - WordPress automatically tries to tell any site I link to that I mentioned them with trackback ping.