Welcome to Zionide version 4.

In the last 3 weeks, I transferred from MovableType to WordPress, redesigned the “look” (it’s a modification of Brian Pinneo’s “New York New York” theme), and went through every past entry to redirect internal links, correct external links (when possible), and ensure every piece of code is valid XHTML 1.0 transitional.

And now I’m done.

The one thing I’ve been unable to do is find a way to collapse my monthly archive list as it was in MT. I hate the long list of months over there, but I don’t want just years, either.

In version 3, I had a Scriptygoddess hack that showed the most recent 12 months, with a JavaScript link to expand further. I tried porting that code to WP, but only got far enough for the list of months to show up expanded. Since I don’t know WordPress (or PHP) well enough to call each month’s archive (especially the ever-changing 12 most recent) rather than all of them, I couldn’t do anything more.

This plugin is the closest WordPress option I’ve found for what I’m looking to do. I asked its author about making it just like the Scriptygoddes hack; he was kind enough to reply, but said it’d be pretty complicated. So I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon - if at all. But if any of you coding geniuses want a challenge AND to make my day… I’d be forever grateful. That big list is making me crazy!

Other than that, I’m happy with this design, and with WordPress as compared to MovableType. We’ll see how it goes as I get more involved, but so far I have no major complaints. Most of my problems come from my own ignorance, and fortunately WP is very user friendly. The best thing about all this is that comment spam is less of a problem - at least so far - and that commenting is finally back.

So, please… use it!