WordPress is the most popular blogging platform out there. WordPress has lots of great looking themes available for free. Serendipity is also a great blogging platform but it does not have the same range of excellent themes or templates that WordPress does.
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Converting from Serendipity to WordPress
Overview
Hire me to convert your Serendipity CMS (s9y) powered website or blog to WordPress. As part of the conversion process the following parts of your s9y blog will be imported into a brand new WordPress installation:
Smarty in your s9y sidebar
I 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
This 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.
How to install a serendipity template
This article is a bit overdue. The days when my serendipity templates
could be installed easily via spartacus are long gone. These days users
have to manually install the themes. So this guide will show you how to
install one of the many templates on this site. The steps are as
follows:
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