I never set out to write this much PHP code. But after seeing what passes for a PHP API to access Amazon Product Information, well I vowed to do a good job on my PHP class, even though it was intended for my own personal use. I had modest goals at the beginning I just wanted to take a list of CDs I own and produce a gallery of album covers…

After my epic and still ongoing battle with PHP and WordPress I decided that I might as well do something at least a little unique and creative with PHP, APIs, RSS, and whatever else…

After spending so much time upgrading and improving Muskblog. I decided to break down and add some feeds and widgets to the rest of my domain. I’d already done this for nurgle.muschamp.ca however I did things slightly differently the second time. For one I used a bit more PHP. I changed my home page from a .html to a .php file so that I could make direct calls to SimplePie as it makes adding RSS feeds to a webpage/website, as simple as pie…

I just spent all evening changing my sidebar.php, that is the chunk of HTML and PHP that makes the stuff to the right of the text appear and work…

Ask yourself do I really, really need to upgrade? If you don’t, don’t upgrade most times it is more work than it should be especially if you’ve had your blog online for years like I have…