The MacAlba

A Scot In Australia

Ecto and WordPress

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Having upgraded to, or installed afresh, WordPress v2.0.1, a personal publishing platform, on four blogs over the past few days, I’m now settling back to acquaint myself with ecto (again). Ecto is a software application for writing and managing blog entries. Once an entry is ready to be published, ecto will upload the article to the blog. Ecto can also be used to edit existing blog entries, then upload changes to the published article.

Although I purchased ecto some time ago, previous versions of WordPress were buggy enough to prevent my being able to use it (ecto) to upload to blogs. WordPress v2.0.1 is the first version that works “out of the boxâ€?, as advertised. Indeed, it’s now a pleasure to use.

A particular strength of WordPress is the “plugin� architecture. “hooks� are available within WordPress to permit independent software developers to add their own specialised functionality. Of special note is the Semiologic plugin suite which can transform WordPress from a personal publishing platform into an “easy to use Content Management System�.

Resources: ecto, wordpress, semiologic plugins and theme

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Written by macalba

February 6, 2006 at 10:01 pm

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