Wordpress Development
Progress on the WordPress Transfer
This weekend I finally finished the huge CSS Design section transfer, and also added in the Entertainment sections and have started piecing in the writeups in the comics section that Christine did over two years ago.
I am kind of delaying from working on the movies section, just because I know how huge it is, and how I want the graphics to transfer without issue. I have a feeling that will be difficult.
This weekend I won’t have much time to work on it at all, I might be able to finish the Christine section if I am lucky.
Single and Double Quotes – Copy and Paste from Dreamweaver to WordPress
Last week when I was having the major issues with bad characters that was causing my server to overload, I guessed that it was because of corrupted characters.
But I know after tonight, it has to do with single and double quotes that I copied and pasted out of Dreamweaver.
The quotes aren’t the same in “Design” view as they are when you paste them into a “Write Post” textarea in WordPress. Now, you might be able to copy the HTML encoding for quotes, but this is not what I was doing.
So, want to max, overload, and crash your server with WordPress? Copy and paste out of Dreamweaver into WordPress. Even set on “Linux” characters translation, it doesn’t matter.
With so much copy and pasting, I will just have to watch it. But it truly is a smart idea to post into Notepad, or PSPad first out of any software, even one as robust and one you wouldn’t think would create bad characters like Dreamweaver.
WordPress 2.2.2 still crashing my server
Well, after a long day, I didn’t get anything figured out.
I made a long, detailed post on the WordPress forums about my issues, but not one person replied. I don’t know if that is a newbie thing, that no one responds to new posters, but the forums seems heavily trafficked.
I thought briefly, that made I had to update my .htaccess file for the blog. But then I figured out that WordPress doesn’t come with a default .htaccess file, you have to make one. It seems like most people use it for permalinks using the mod_rewrite function of the server. I hadn’t gotten that far, so I hadn’t created one yet.
I made a blank file on the server through ftp, and then I didn’t touch the site for the rest of the day. Little did I know this caused an internal 500 server error. I didn’t figure that out until just now:)
So, with no replies, and no luck finding anything else, I am preparing for my site to be shut down tomorrow night right when we have company. At least I told my host to just remove the wordpress version and leave the regular site.
Day 4 of my week off
Sarah had a long day at camp yesterday, so she slept in today and I with her.
Around 10:30 she got a bug to go outside and weed. We went and did the front garden in the lawn, right below the kitchen window, and then we went over to the west side yard and started to work there. She was feeling really ambitious in the things she wanted me to do, and she asked if we could finally dig out the trees that were in the flower bed.
We had chopped them down two years ago? But I knew this would be a chore, and the previous owners never did anything, you could see multiple stumps on one where the tree had grown again many times.
It took me until about 12:45 to dig out two separate stumps. The roots went right next to the foundation and curved every which way, it was a pain. Digging out anything is a pain in our clay based ground, I had to have Sarah go out and get a spade shovel finally to do the job.
When I got back inside it was back to work on the blog. I started changing the post dates on my some 550 plus posts. This ended up taking me all day! I did finish it really late, but that is pretty much all I did all day. I worked on the theme a little bit more but it was a boring day of work and not very fulfilling.
I took a break for lunch to watch “Just Like Heaven”, a girlie movie Sarah had borrowed which I got sucked into. I am ashamed to say it was pretty good.
Then when Sarah got home just after 4 we went out and saw Shrek 3 at 4:30. That was, ok. I didn’t laugh all that much, and the movie really dragged on in parts. But I thought it was a fairly interesting story with the usual nice work ins of other fairy tale creatures from other stories. I’d be curious to see where they go with Shrek 4 in 2009.
On the way back we stopped and got my phone from Sprint. It wasn’t holding a charge, so I had it looked at. The battery was “defective” they said, and it had a year manufacturer warranty, so I got it replaced for free.
When we got back I worked more on the dates, and Sarah made dinner. I worked and worked the rest of the night. We took a short break together to play some Ms. Pac-man, but that was it.
I hope tomorrow to do some more productive stuff, shorter things I can finish and get a better sense of accomplishment.
Day 3 – Transferring static blog into WordPress
Yesterday I finished up all of the daily life posts! I was happily surprised and felt a lot better. I feel like that is one of the largest chunks of work to do on the site.
Or at least I thought. When I have started to go through some of the other sections, I realize that the larger chunk of time may come in when working with images inside of the pages.
Plus the intricacies of each page and the design of it being a little different inside a solution that is a little constraining without further plugins and such.
I also got through all of the posts for the two dogs, which was a good amount of stuff too.
I am loosing some steam. I know the work from here on out isn’t as repetitive, which can make things easy. I want to go through and change all of the post dates, but so far I have 583 entries, and probably only 200 entries with the right dates. So it will be quite the process.
I just know, I like writing new posts, filing them, and knowing that I may never have to touch them again:)
Day 2 – Transferring static blog into WordPress
Wow. When you get into it, sometimes it is hard to stop.
I went through some 12 pages yesterday in a couple of hours of old journal posts. Probably an average of 15-20 posts per page, remaking, filing, redoing the images etc. I now have a good amount of posts in the database and I am working more today.
But it is time consuming. I haven’t committed yet, but I am concerned if I do I still won’t be able to get it done before Monday and I won’t be able to do anything else this week.
I am going to continue this path, work on it as much as I can, but still do other enjoyable things during the day and see where I am by tonight.
Ported changes for Day 1
Tonight.
I have installed WP twice now, but tonight was the first time I had troubles. I had not changes the correct values in the config file, I change the value on the left, when it was the right side values I was supposed to change. But hey, it gave me more practice in the backend creating databases and users.
So, tonight I spent about 2 hours on the site. I started on the template, changed the background, inserted the header image, and realized I am probably going to resize everything. I don’t know why I went with a blog width of just over 700 px the first time around, but this time I am using all of the real estate given to me.
I also added in all of my categories and underlying structure. I added in one post under the entertainment section to kick it off, and called it good.
