Sag Hampton moves to WordPress

After almost three years of running Sag Hampton on the Blogware platfrom, I felt it was time to move on to something a bit more flexible and with a brighter future. Blogware has not been updated in some time, and appears as if it may be a dead end in terms of features. WordPress, on the other hand, is probably the preeminent blogging software in use today. So, for those reasons, and also to help motivate me to write more, I decided to make the switch.

Readers will notice that a few things have changed, but the overall Sag Hampton experience should not be much different than what you are used to. The one obvious change is that the photo album, which used to appear on the upper left side of the screen is gone. This may return at some point, if I find a way to implement it in WordPress. For now, a sort of replacement is the revolving pictures in the page header. In theory, every time you move to a new page in Sag Hampton, a different picture will be shown at the top of the page. This worked pretty well in testing, although occasionally, the replacement picture was the same as the one being replaced. It is a random selection after all, so this is likely to happen every once in a while. Another change is that I am no longer using excerpts on the blog’s main page. Where you used to see a little snippet of the post, and then have to click on the “more” link in order to read the rest of the article you now will see the entire article, on the main page.

Also, for now, most of the other content in the sidebars is missing, including ads and links to other blogs and websites. As I get around to it, at least some of this content will return.

Finally, if you previously commented on this blog and used your real name, or an alias, you will find that your name has now been removed from the comment. This was an unavoidable side-effect of moving the blog content from one platform to the other. I have also taken this opportunity to turn off commenting on all the older posts, as most of the comments a blog receives on older posts are “comment spam” anyway. Comments will be allowed (and are encouraged) on all new posts, including the most recent, “The Five Top Problems Facing Sag Hampton.”

Oh, one more thing…if you’ve previously subscribed to Sag Hampton through RSS or e-mail, you may want to redo your subscription. In theory, all subscriptions should still work, but in reality, they may not. And, by the way, thanks for sticking with Sag Hampton, through its long hiatus.