Welcome To Earth David

This is a PayPal shopping cart plugin for WordPress 2.5 and above. Bookmarked here so that I don’t forget about it since it might come in handy for when I get ready to open my craft business back up again…. although I can do well enough on my own to set up a paypal shopping cart without a plugin.

Today is a BIG day for my website / blog. Today I switched over to Wordpress v.2.5.1 from an old template I had created using Cutenews CMS. Cutenews was great for awhile, but for me it seriously lacked much needed spam control. That was one of the main reasons why I switched over to Wordpress. But I also switched over to Wordpress because I love how you can just drop in a new template that someone else has already made for you whenever you decided that you want a new look for your website / blog, and I love how you can create static pages within the Wordpress blog itself without having to write any HTML. Don’t get me wrong now, I love to create my own web pages and have been doing so since around 1998, but my HTML skills are just basic skills and I’m kinda lazy to try learning all of the CSS tricks and Web 2.0 design stuff.

So it only took me a few days of playing around with Wordpress to realize that I needed to switch over to it for all of the reasons above, but the main reason as I said was for the spam control which I need to get set up today as well as go find a pretty new template.

So anyway, here is to a new beginning. Maybe now I can actually start getting some readers to this site now that I have changed over to a decent blogging platform.

I just activated Akismet spam control in my wordpress. Supposedly it automatically blocks all, or most spam comments. I really wish Cutenews could have implemented something like this, but it’s too late now Cutenews because I have already switched over to Wordpress and I am loving it. I’ll be watching over the next few weeks to see how well Akismet works. I hope it does well. I hate spam!