As this is a new site I haven't really figured out where I want, or need to go with it. I am hopeful that it will help with the adoption of Habari, and help converts from other platforms figure things out, but I also want to make sure that I do something that is useful to more experienced Habari users. If I don't I imagine the site will quickly get boring.
For the select few that currently subscribe (this is currently a very exclusive club) here is an update on what I intend to do over the next however long these things take.
An area of my WordPress site that has proven very popular is the plugin generator, and so I have been working to set up a Habari version here. I uploaded the first working version today.
You can test out the first version of the Fun with Habari Plugin Generator. I am interested to get any thoughts on what it should provide, or if there are any errors in the basic content that is there already.
One thing that I think would really help the adoption of Habari is for people to see what can be done with it. With that in mind I am searching for really good examples of sites built on Habari.
More for fun than anything else, I have built a limited webspider that searches for Habari based websites. It checked for the line "powered by Habari" but also checks for the presence of the Charcoal Theme's XML file. So far I have around 50 sites identified, most if not all of which are listed on the Wiki, but you never know it might come up with something eventually.
Theming is really big in WordPress and there seems no reason for that not to be true with Habari as well so I plan to run a series of posts demonstrating the process of converting a WordPress theme to Habari. I am looking for a good quality theme to convert and once I have found that I will start writing.
Finally, I am considering using one or more of my spare domains to produce some sample sites. If I can come up with some interesting attention grabbing ideas then that could be quite interesting. I own the domain - funwithonions.co.uk so I imagine there should be some possibilities surrounding that.
This blog is my stage for investigating and using Habari. This is my place to try new themes and plugins in the real world and live with it on a day to day basis.
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