No Treason

Tuesday June 9th, the LewRockwell.com blog did not update.  I could tell something was glitchy, as links to recent posts would not resolve, and the RSS feed was unresponsive.  This morning, Lew Rockwell explains,

For almost 24 hours, for the first time ever for LRC, the blog was down. My attempt to upgrade to the latest version of Moveable Type software didn’t work. But what did I expect from a closed-source program? Now we’re on WordPress, which is open source (though I do have to admit my fingers are crossed). In any event, apologies for the missing day. I don’t quite feel like the great Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend, but it was definitely a drama. If I’d had any hair, I would have pulled it out. Thanks to Chris Brunner and Aristotle Esguerra.

Three things.

One. WordPress is the best blogging platform.  It’s also arguably one of the best simple site CMSs (content management systems) available.  This is one of those instances where open source is superior to closed source.  You’ve made a great choice Lew because WordPress is the same platform Stephan Kinsella uses for the heroic journal, Libertarian Papers.

Continue reading LRC goes WordPress, Kinsella and Block too

I know there are a few WordPress bloggers out there who read NoT.  If you haven’t upgraded already to 2.7, I want to warn you, that the backend is ugly, unintuitive and looks like it was designed by a career bureaucrat.

If anyone has seen a way to revert a 2.7 admin panel back to a 2.6 admin panel (style) please post it in the comments and I would be very appreciative for that. With a half dozen blogs now, I spend a lot of time in WP and the user experience (admin side) does matter.

Thanks.