I originally purchased the samadhimuse.com domain name nearly a year ago but I had to wait until I had time to sit down and work my way through how to write a WordPress plug-in. Luckily, I’ve spent most of my professional years in the IT industry so I had the background to be able to do this.
With approximately a thousand poems already entered into computer format, I didn’t want to retype them all in again. The purpose of the plug-in was, then, to convert these many poems from the ASCII format they were in into one which could be dropped directly into WordPress posts and have them cross-referenced and dated appropriately and automatically.
Essentially, as of today this plug-in is functional and I’ve used it to transferred the first 752 poems onto the site. These poems span the period from 1968 to 1989 but do not, by any means, represent all my work from that period.
Many more poems from these years and others await transfer. And, in addition to all those which have been previously copied into computer files, there are many more yet which still exist only on paper and which I need to type in. This project will, as you can imagine, be an undertaking which will span years.