Last day of the holidays – back to the day job tomorrow. My holiday task – migrating the Community Council site to WordPress 2.0 – was finished successfully yesterday. I now need to prove my theory that WordPress 2.0 is easy enough for real people to use to maintain the site – maybe that’s another new year’s resolution.

As usual, when I chose this little holiday task, I hadn’t expected to have to write two plug-ins (in fact, I only needed to write one, as I subsequently found one which would have done the ‘folding menus’ piece – not as elegantly as my solution though ). However, it was fun brushing up my rusty php skills, after my diversion last year to Rails (I’m still getting emails about Four Days on Rails).

However, at the end of this exercise, congratulations to the WordPress crew for creating a powerful, friendly, and extensible piece of software. It’s a real tribute to the team that they set out to create a package for bloggers, and I’ve used it successfully as a replacement for a fully-fledged content management system.

Happy New Year, many thanks, and keep up the good work!

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