A major change for the Travelogue! After some deeply frustrating issues during both Southwest Overland and OAT West, I’ve decided to pull the travel blog off of Tumblr where I originally built it. I’ve hastily relaunched as a self-hosted WordPress website with a lot of code I’m going to have to rewrite later… I’ve only done light customizations on theming/design so far, but I can reuse the bulk of the location-aware/mapping code I’d written before. And despite the rush, I’ve even been able to improve upon some of it.
Thankfully, I was able to do a complete migration and retain all of my content. I feel good knowing that I have all this content on an installation that I have control over. It’s unfortunate that some of the formatting has been lost. Some of that was Tumblr’s fault (because a little over a year ago, its Android application just stopped differentiating post formats) and some of it was the import and updates on the WordPress end.
Ultimately, I think I’ll be able to create better content here with far better options for media. Also one of the first things I built out was an ability to group past trip content into a category which hooks up to the Location Tracker so I can finally link to entire trips worth of content, starting at the beginning!
Site code is up on GitHub, and I’ll probably write about this experiment over on my blog at some point. In the meantime, I gotta start getting ready for our next adventure! It starts in two days…