Month: April 2009

I mean, I knew that already, but now I have confirmation. I was lamenting my broken permalinks (not so “permanent”, are they?), and he came up with a solution so simple and elegant it’s ridiculous.

Well, “simple” assumes a level of knowledge of php that I have mostly forgotten, and a level of knowledge of WordPress that I’ve never had. But with a few strategically placed functions, a new table in the database, a redirect line in my htaccess file…my permalinks work again! Time for a happy dance!

I have a couple of other tweaks to figure out, but I am finally comfortable and happy enough with my new system to blog about something else one of these days. Oh, and fix my craft pages. (Mumble..mumble..darn php errors..mumble…)

Now that I’ve played around a bit with WordPress I’m happy enough that I’m going to keep it. I wish I could have figured out a way to keep the same permalinks so anyone with bookmarks wouldn’t find 404 pages. And I still have to fix my internal links.

Oh, and I think any RSS readers out there are going to have to update their feed link. Sigh.

But look! Random header images! (Reload a couple of times and you’ll hopefully get different images.)

OK. Off to get the girls ready so Carrie can have her swimming lesson today…

So I fixed the main part of my blog (all except the craft pages) and then it was down again this morning yesterday morning. I didn’t actually do anything at all on my site in between when it was fixed and when it broke, so I don’t see how I could have caused it. Since I barely have time to update my blog, let alone muck with all the backend stuff, I decided to go in another direction entirely and try WordPress

It’s going to take a little getting used to. I’m not completely happy with the template yet, all of my internal links are completely broken, and any external bookmarks will be broken as well. I have no idea at all what this is going to do to the RSS feed…apologies if you get all 1500+ entries showing up in there!

But, it’s nearing 1 AM, and as tomorrow today is Palm Sunday I think I’d better just make this public and fix everything later.

Gah!

I wish this were an April Fool’s joke, but I somehow managed to break my entire (#@*&% site while trying to get my blog up-to-date. OK, well, it might be a joke, but if it is, it’s one that someone else is playing on me. :p

I think I have the Journal part fixed, but the Crafts section appears to be down. Everything else seems OK, but I haven’t tried posting a comment or anything… I think I somehow managed to break something with my php installation while posting an update. Which makes absolutely no sense. Plus my ssh permissions seem to not be working, which makes it nearly impossible to figure out what’s going wrong…and I can’t remember how I’d go about fixing my ssh permissions.

(Would you believe that I used to program websites for a living? I wonder which child stole those brain cells while I was pregnant…)