Category: website

Hello everybody!
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Today I more or less spontaneously decided to haul over my site. The main reasons for this being:

• Wanting to update to WordPress 2.5;
• Wanting to switch from Fantastico, to SimpleScripts for maintaining the installations of my blog;
• Not being completely happy with the previous layout of the blog;
• There being some bugs that needed to be removed with sledgehammers.

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So, I pulled out my sledgehammer and smashed my blog! The main challenge I was facing initially was that I had to figure out how to export the old blog and import it into the new one without having to move to a different URL. I made a new installation of WordPress alongside the old one and tried renaming the installation folder, which didn’t work out so well, as I had expected.
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In the end I basically just took all the uploaded files from the old blog, exported all posts and comments, uninstalled it, installed a new blog in the same location, put the uploaded files into its directories and imported all posts and comments. Although it was displaying some errors during importing, everything seems to be working fine.
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Okay, so what’s new:

• Probably most obvious is the layout – hope you like it!
• I am working with WordPress 2.5 now, which is a delight and will make my blog a lot more dynamic!
• When you comment on a post,  you can now enable email notification so that you can keep your ear to the grapevine!
• On the page of each post, you will now be able to see a list of related posts!
• Clickable tags will start showing up in posts.
• A neat list of categories at the top of the page!
• A Twitter menu at the left, so you can stay up to date with what I’m doing!
• Only 5 posts displayed on the main page, instead of 10. I might change this though.

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There’s more! You’ll just have to find out about those yourself!
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Hope you like the new site!