Sometime this weekend—could be in a few hours; could be tomorrow—I plan on migrating to a new content management system called Expression Engine. Being a completely new system, all inbound links will break (as well as the internal links and images, at least initially) and there will surely be some rough spots.
Several temporary shortcomings will be immediately apparent:
- The URLs for all of the RSS feeds will change (but there will be a new Atom feed)
- The search engine isn’t yet implemented; this will be remedied as soon as possible
- There’ll be no calendar interface, at least not initially, although it may be added in the future
So, why make the change? Especially since Expression Engine isn’t even released yet? Well, I’ve been working with the public beta releases and I’m convinced that the system is stable enough for a production environment. Additionally, the new modular structure makes the system extensible in so many ways that I can’t even begin to think of everything that will sprout from third-party developes. Expression Engine also sports a new data model that will let me add new content fields and data types. Finally, the new software has enhanced security infrastructure and a super-duper caching system that will take some tweaking but can be customized down to the tag and database query level.
New RSS feeds
If you use this website’s RSS feeds, please note that they will go dark sometime this weekend. I think the following URLs should work once the new system’s in production, but no promises:
RSS 1.0: http://www.farces.com/index.php/hasten/rss_1.0/
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