Over the past few weeks your websteward recreated all of the pages of this site as WordPress Pages. On July 30th, with a few tweaks, the old pages disappeared and the new ones took their place. Now when you select a page, the entire page is created on-the-fly using a style template. The content (text) is stored in a database. There are a number of advantages, including:
- editing of a page can be done by anyone with internet access, the correct user name, and the correct password. So Pages can be assigned to volunteers for editing and updating. Please consider “owning” a Page.
- all of the text on the web site can be searched for key words
- the site-map is recreated automatically every time it is requested, thus making it always up-to-date
- access by visually impaired persons can be improved
- the entire site is made easier to maintain
WordPress is an open source, personal web publishing program originally developed to be used for blogs, those personal web sites where the authors post daily, weekly or sporadic commentary. Others, including us, began to use the software for certain aspects of their web sites. In our case we used WP to post the vestry minutes, letters from our clergy, and a few other things. But with earlier WP versions it was not possible to use the program for static web pages. That changed with the 1.5 version which has been under development for over a year. It became stable enough for general use in June 2005. I anticipate that the program will continue to improve as the developers get feed-back from us users.
I guess I should apologize for the fact that your old bookmarks (favorites in IE) will no longer work. Please use the “Bookmark this Page” link at the bottom of any page you wish to bookmark.
Thanks for your patience — Bill Hayes
