Administrivia

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…)

You may have noticed all the entries from the past few days magically appearing suddenly. I’ve been caught in an agony of indecision. I’m sick and tired of not being able to access my own archives, since the Typekey protection that I’m using is only consistent in that it consistently doesn’t work for me (and from what I’ve heard, a few others). I’ve been contemplating my options, and I still haven’t made any decisions.

So, before anyone starts thinking I’ve dropped off the face of the earth, I’ve decided to publish all of my entries, including the protected ones, and decide later.

I’ve decided to try putting google ads on the crafts portion of my site. My brother was helping me track down when and from where Carrie’s pictures were stolen, and noticed how much traffic I get on some of those pages. Personally, I’m not too sure about the whole idea, but I suppose if the site can pay for some part of the costs of maintaining it, maybe it’s not such a bad thing. Actually, there have been a couple of ads I’ve been interested in looking at, but I’m expressly forbidden to click on my own ads!

In other site news, I know there are some problems with the TypeKey authentication, especially for users of Safari (like me) and Internet Explorer. I’m still working on tracking those down. As far as I can tell, they mainly involve caching issues, and I’ve applied every fix I’ve found with no success. I’m a little frustrated with this whole thing, since it affects my ability to read my own posts, not to mention all of you lovely people who have gone to the trouble of getting a TypeKey account and letting me know about it. Hopefully I’ll get this fixed soon, since I’m tired of spending every evening dealing with my site instead of knitting Christmas gifts! Thanks for your patience. :)