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Aaron has posted an excellent reference for anybody interested in editing or migrating templates. In his Template Tag Reference Sheet he cross-references tags between the Blogger, MovableType and Wordpress platforms. Worth bookmarking and coming back to when you needed.

It’s a shame Drupal isn’t in there. Hey Aaron, here are the Drupal equivalents (using PHPTemplate)

“Non-Loop” (page.tpl.php)

• $base_url
• $site_name
• $site_slogan

“Loop” (node.tpl.php)

• $content
• $teaser
• $name
• $terms

Note: Some of the above variables are not always available, you might need to use variable_get or add to a Global statement

37signals has put Getting Real online for free. While I don’t agree with everything they write it is a damn good read and has been very influential. The main thing I like about their philosophy is the emphasis on small and lean and containing the scope. Good advice.

Drupal is growing in popularity in the blog world. There are very good reasons for this, reasons I will go into in a future post. For those already won over you need to decide if 4.7 or version 5 is the right one for you. Wondering if you should upgrade to Drupal 5? Dries has been doing some comparative performance testing

The benchmarks are in, and the news is either great, ok, or bad depending on your site. In the end, it comes down to caching; is your site the type of site that can make extensive use of caching? If yes, great! If your site only has authenticated users, you might see a slowdown. D5 gained flexibility and features. For some, there is a small price.

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