Converting from Serendipity to WordPress
February 16th, 2012
This post is aimed at advanced users. If you lack the technical skills to carry out this conversion I can do it for you for a small fee. Please contact me for more details.
Serendipity is a great CMS and I’ve been using it for a long time. But times have changed and the WordPress admin area is just amazing. It makes blogging so much easier that I absolutely had to convert my s9y blog to WordPress. To make the conversion I needed a suitable importer script and, indeed, I found one online. It’s an opensource script that a bunch of different individuals have contributed to.
Minimizing duplicate content in a serendipity blog
September 26th, 2008Serving the same textual content on different website pages
can be very bad from a search engine optimization point of view. This is because it makes it difficult to rank well in the search engine results pages for that content
and dilutes the benefits of incoming links to it.
Most Content Management Systems (CMS) and blogging systems in particular have a tendency to display the same content in multiple places. Unfortunately serendipity(s9y) is no exception. In this post I look at how to minimize duplicate content in an s9y powered blog.
Smarty in your s9y sidebar
June 28th, 2007I recently discovered the "markup: smarty" event plugin in spartacus! It allows you to add smarty tags in your entries and sidebar html nuggets. I installed it and am using smarty tags within an HTML nugget sidebar plugin to selectively display links in the sidebar.
Some of the links are supposed to display sitewide while others are homepage only. Using smarty in the HTML nugget allows me to display them correctly:
Header image selection via media manager in Serendipity themes
May 14th, 2007This article shows you how to implement header image selection via the media manager in your serendipity templates configuration.
I first introduced this feature in the beautiful day theme and it proved to be quite popular.
Serendipity theme updates
May 11th, 2007I have updated two of my serendipity blog system templates. The following updates were made:
Freshy: The ever popular freshy theme now has the additional option of custom header image selection via the serendipity media manager a la beautiful day.
RoundedCorner: I have updated rounded corner to make it easy for users to add, remove and modify links in the top navigation bar via the admin suite.
