Well, it’s my second migration. First I built this blog on my own using php. Then I decided to venture out and stop re-inventing the wheel and use a real blogging software tool. I chose Mephisto at the time (about a year ago), but I eventually regretted that and am now completely content with WordPress. I doubt I will ever switch again. I have researched it well this time and talked to professional bloggers who have researched it...

This blog you are reading is powered by Mephisto. I originally created this blog using my own code in PHP and was so tired of re-inventing the wheel that I went out and researched what I thought would be the best blogging software for my needs. I’m in love with Ruby on Rails, so one of my requirements was that it had to be using that technology. In my research I narrowed it down to Typo and Mephisto, but there wasn’t much...

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I was getting frustrated with the idea of updating my sitemap.xml every time I created a new article on this blog. So I started mulling through the Mephisto Wiki and found a Mephisto Google Sitemap Plugin from Stephen Caudill which works great! I would have left a comment on his site, but it appears that comments have been turned off. So I’m leaving an endorsement here....

I don’t know if it’s because the Lucid theme for Mephisto was ported from Typo, but it was displaying the timestamp on my entries as UTC instead of MST, which is what I told Mephisto my time zone is in the Settings. Apparently Lucid uses JavaScript to convert the timestamp into a more descriptive time (“about an hour ago”) if the timestamp is less than a week old and otherwise displays the date. Without having enough...