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12/03/2021


2021/03/12#p1

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Happy Friday.

My week off has raced by and i can't believe it's coming to an end already. Still, I have gotten a lot done from writing to study, things around the house, and the car passed its MOT okay which was a relief – it was also considerably cheaper than we were expecting.

The past couple of mornings, however, have seen me struggle to get into a flow with chapter/lesson 8, likely because of the topic involved. So I continue to chip away, a couple of hundred words at a time, trying to construct a logical progression from point to point. I should, hopefully, get past it over the weekend but this leads on to another couple of potentially difficult chapters as they follow on from one another, layering ideas on what came before.

It was never going to be easy.

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2021/03/12#p2

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I made the mistake of thinking more about migrating the muse-letter to the non-WordPress site before going to bed last night so my brain was on overdrive and wouldn't let me sleep until I'd worked most of it out in my head. It should be fairly simple to achieve.

The email list is just a record in the database so can be used/moved anywhere I like and I just need to create a new table in the database for the letters. Porting the sign-up/sign-off process should be easy as this was all purpose built and will just require some tweaks for the different environment and means of database connectivity.

The posting mechanism already exists so can be lifted straight from the blog and I already use PHPMailer to send myself email notifications so can use this to deliver the letters. An RSS feed will need to be created but I have a standard block of code to achieve this – more drag and drop.

The only bit that would require some thought is setting up a template system for individual letters on the web but maybe that could rely on passing a parameter to a page, something like /muse-letter.php?e=10 where e = edition. If e is not specified I just show the latest letter with the same previous/next navigation as on the blog, that way it's all contained on the one page.

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All the letters have been ported over and the new page template is working – adding new items and sending the email is a go. Next I need to add page navigation to switch between letters and migrate the sign-up page. Once that's been done I'll just need to move the email list and we're done.

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