A clean slate
Well, so far things are looking pretty good. I have just finished moving all of my templates and plugins over to the new install. Things are so much easier the second time around. I have spent many hours putting the fine touches on this site and today, I have had to recreate about half of them within the span of a few hours. I truly thought that I wouldn’t have this site back to a workable state until later this week. I must be getting good in my old age.
Some positive things have come out of this experience. I guess the main lesson here is to backup your site. This should be a daily habit but I am a bit forgetful at times and couple that with laziness…you get the picture. I’ll try to make it a point to make an export of this site at least once a week. If I should need another fresh start I hope that I will be able to get away with only a few entries that will need to be manually entered. Another lesson learned is that I should stop procrastinating when it comes to fixing known issues with this site. The Berkeley database has been corrupt for about 4 months now. We tried to get away from the database at that time but the conversion process from Berkeley to MySQL didn’t go well. At that time I could have entered the hand few of entires that didn’t make it through automatically. Hindsight is 20/20. At the time I thought that we might be able to find a solution to the conversion and /or the existing problem would go away.
I was also having problems with my Bayesian filter. That is now corrected. I have also added the Plugin Manager from MT-Plugins.org. It proved to be a great time saver when I was reinstalling the numerous plugins. Unfortunately, it didn’t work well with a few plugins; SCode, Bayesian, and AdSenseStats. I had to put these in by hand. BTW, I still can’t get AdSenseStats to work.
I will hopefully be able to clean up some code and add some comments to special areas that I have added customizations. I still have some debugging to do, I expect bugs to work their way through when I have more entries in the database.
I will be able to redo my categories. I was quite happy with the categories that I previously had. I found it hard to put a category to certain entries. I’m sure this will still be a problem but hopefully I will handle it a little better.
With this new install, I am noticing great speed in rebuilding the site. Of course there isn’t much to build but it feels good to see the process scream. The downside is that the old entries will not be searchable by this site but they are ALL still out there. My brother suggested that I use Google to my advantage, but I think I will leave this as is.
The Memory Links are offline, for the time being. Perhaps tomorrow I will take a look at them. I was updating them as much as I should have. They may just fall of this site. I’ll think about that.
Well, that’s it for now, back to blogging.
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