Comments on: OTB on WordPress

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:25:58 +0000

Speaking of WordPress
Outside The Beltway made the move last week....

By: hard times

hard times — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:23:23 +0000

Cool Kids Club Grows By One
James Joyner has switched OTB to WordPress and seems to be pleased with the result. One thing that should be pointed out is that I didn't know that the site had been switched until I saw the post. It looks exactly the same as it did on Movable Typ...

By: One Fine Jay

One Fine Jay — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:10:14 +0000

OTB on steroids
James Joyner is now running Wordpress. I'd like to hear from him as time goes by on the server load, as it is one of the benchmarks that I am keeping an eye on: just how many tits will it take to force a server disconnect error on a higher-traffic blo...

By: Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:53:50 +0000

If I had to guess, the font difference has something to do with the site now rendering in Standards mode instead of (presumably) Quirks.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:24:37 +0000

I do have the gzip option on, Kevin. Problem is all the stuff loaded from offsite doesn't get gzipped. I'm going to wait a day or two before cleaning up the hard drive completely (just to be safe). He'll have a lot more disk space after that... I'd estimate he'll get at least 100megs back, and probably more. I'll see what I can do about the font. The design is exactly the same, except I fixed a few HTML errors. I have a feeling the font size was adjusted for the errors and fixing them unadjusted it...

By: On The Third Hand

On The Third Hand — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:14:59 +0000

Another Word Press Convert
Just got our man at Outside the Beltway to to move to WordPress and join the group of people who don't have to wait a half hour for a site to rebuild.

By: Robert Tagorda

Robert Tagorda — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:31:45 +0000

The site looks the same on IE and Mozilla. On the Opera browser, however, the blockquotes are not indented, though the borders are there.

By: Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:18:49 +0000

Wow, a pretty impressive switchover; if you hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have noticed (unless I looked at the URLs).

One minor problem: on Firefox 0.9.1 under Linux, the labels for "Name" etc. on the comment form are located to the right instead of the left of the fields.

By: jen

jen — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:53:51 +0000

It looks the same to me too, except for the significantly smaller font in your blockquotes. Here at work it's not going to be a problem for me to read. At home, where my settings are much smaller, I won't be able to read it without a magnifying glass.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:46:51 +0000

Now you can add the GZip page compression. I'm not sure if that's turned on by default, but you should look for it.

How about a before, after disk space comparison?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:27:34 +0000

Font looks smaller...and I think that is better.

By: Arguing with signposts... » WP v. MT for Eric

Arguing with signposts... » WP v. MT for Eric — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

[...] amic pages, not static pages. Where this shows up is in rebuild time. As James Joyner said when he switched, after about 2,000 posts, rebuilding pages is just a royal pain. Now, I can make [...]