My flickr comments are slowly being merged in to my photoblog posts using Tarique’s excellent Live Flickr Comment Importer plugin for wordpress. You can see results on this post, I have to add a custom field in each post for this to work so it will take some time to get them all in.

Some of you may have noticed on the about page that I now have a twitter account, follow me if you like. I’m not sure how I feel about twitter at the moment but at least it’s another way to announce a new photoblog post.

Since switching to Wordpress I’ve been frantically working on the site. Finally I think I have all the bugs ironed out and am happy with the look and functionality.

It’s taken many hours, I shall now concentrate on my photography and the site content.

Deceptive Media now runs on Wordpress. I work with Wordpress everyday and have recently felt that Deceptive Media should be moved to Wordpress.

When I first started photoblogging there really wasn’t much out there, and what was required fast amounts of hacking to get working as a photoblog. So my brother offered to build one which he called DeView. We developed it together other the years and it has served very well. In some ways I’m sad to see it go, but I wanted to integrate my photoblog and the news and inspiration part of my blog more, which was already running on wordpress. Having two different blogging software’s to power my site was making design changes difficult as I liked to keep a uniform look. I also wanted friendly URL’s, and threaded commenting.

Recently I was interviewed at PetaPixel and this reminded me that Deceptive Media was originally going to show case all my creativity (photography, videos and music) so I’ve made a place for my music & videos (not much there yet), though Deceptive Media will remain primarily a photoblog.

Big thanks to my brother for making this possible by mapping the the databases, He’s written a little about it here. And also a big thanks to whoismanu for his excellent photoQ plugin, turning Wordpress into a very capable photoblog.

I’ve kept the main RSS feed as just the photoblog for now, if you’d prefer to subscribe to everything then you can here.

I’ve added some CSS3 effects, mainly rounded corners and drop shadows, these won’t show in Internet Explorer though.

I have plans to add more pages to this site so I needed to re-design the header to generate some more space.

A few years ago some of you may remember I used to have a Moblog called GX30.net which was for photos I took with my Sharp GX30 mobile phone. The camera on the phone was crap technically but some how produced photos that I loved. I found the cameras in all subsequent phones I owned to be not nearly as good and lost interest in my moblog which eventually died.

I recently got a HTC Magic and I think that it’s capable of some crap photos in a similar way to the GX30 so hence I’ve added a Moblog section to Deceptive Media for these photos. I’ll also be posting all the better GX30 photos I have plus some from other camera phones I’ve owned.

Apologies to those of you who had commented on this blog (not the photoblog) as I accidentally deleted all comments whilst trying to delete a mass of spam. This was partly my fault for having not installed Akismet, which I’ve done now so hopefully this wont happen again.
There is a little counter bottom right to indicate the number of spam comments blocked if your interested.

Slight changes to footer and header, but mainly the addition of the new Archives page with search and multiple options to view images. Projects has moved to the main menu away from the footer, both probably still need some refinement.

Been fiddling again. I tihnk I’m getting there now, I plan to spend some more time refining this blog section of the site but I’m pretty happy with the photoblog section now.

The first of probably many revisions to the site design since adding the new extra blog section for news and inspiration.

I ended up disliking the header due to the amount of space it took up, especially on a smaller res screen, hence the skinny header.

I’ve also been beavering away on the back end and finally reduced the url count for each post to one. Previously there were 4 url’s per skin for each post in the photoblog, with seven skins and 977 posts (at the time of writing) there were effectively 6839 pages on the site. Hopefully Google and other search engines will have an easier time indexing Deceptive Media now.

I’ve had to rid the site of skins, a feature I really liked but that meant due to the way the site worked I effectively had 7 pages of duplicate content throughout the site, something Google’s not keen on, skins are know history.