All Things Patrick - Working Hard to be Lazy!

After several years of using Wordpress I switched my blog back to Drupal. There's several reasons for this, but some of the more important issues, to me anyway, included being able to easily do certain things like add external links to my "Pages" section. The only 2 ways I could figure out how to do it with Wordpress was to either a) hack the theme or b) make fake pages and then use Apache redirects to forward the URL to the real link. I also wanted to be able to quickly add a link or other content without it cluttering up the blog posts or forcing it onto every single page under the blogroll.

I was also having issues adding a blog post which I thought might be due to a broken Wordpress installation, but I later discovered was actually due to an Apache security module preventing me from mentioning certain file locations (such as /etc/passwd). After I figured that out I was able to break it up with spaces in order to post it, then dug into the database in order to fix it... In several places as Wordpress kept multiple broken versions of the post and I wasn't sure which version needed fixing.