Thomas Penwell

Blogs are now live on thepenwells.com

I decided to go with the same blog system I am currently using right here. I took a look at wordpress and decided it would not work that great for my purpose. Since wordpress does not allow creation of multiple blogs (at least not that I could see or figure out) so I went with b2evolution.

This one did not make it easy to bridge with. This bridge was constructed a bit different than the image gallery bridge. This bridge gives the user an option to either use the blog system hosted on thepenwells.com or create a link to their existing blog page.

The blog bridge also took way more sql queries to make it function than the image gallery system. I was scratching my head for about 2 hours trying to figure out 2 things: 1) how to see the different elements (widgets if you will) on the newly created blog. Solution to this was simple. needed to insert the widget information for the newly created blog. 2) For some reason the blog itself would work but the user isn't able to write to it (gave a server error). Solution to this was to create a post category for the newly created blog (pita they need unique identifiers.)