Nov 13 2008
Prunella DeVille
Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a post about the great coffee and prunes debacle of 2008. I’ve completely learned my lesson when it comes to that shit (sorry). No, this is a post about the complicated and unpleasant process of transferring this blog from Wordpress to the Dot Com.
When I’d try to transfer over my stored backup files, it would take two, even three attempts to get all the files to port over. You know, I’m used to having trouble with FTP clients, so that’s not a huge deal. You just keep trying until it’s successful. Somehow, though, things are different when it comes to installing a WordPress (for the sake of brevity and laziness, let’s just call it WP) backup. Namely, when my upload would crap out (more poop references, I’m very sorry) and I would reinitialize the transfer, it ended up not overwriting the old posts, but adding duplicate posts!
So for most of the blog entries pre-September, sometimes instead of one blog post, I’d have two with the same title, and I didn’t know about it until browsing through my archives to look for a specific post to back link to. Then I saw I had three of those posts, I knew I screwed something up. So I went back through the archives and when I saw two posts with the same title together, I saved one and deleted the other(s). I missed some, I’m sure, but I’ll find them eventually. Probably while uploading ancient reviews of movies no one cares about because they don’t realize how awesome Miles O’Keeffe is.
I also have no sidebar on the side of my individual entries, which is further proof I screwed something up. I’ll admit that I’ve long since given up hope at figuring it out. For a guy who has spent years working on websites and tinkering with HTML, I lack the skills needed to build from the ground up or easily diagnose problems. I also would like to make the little picture deal above a link back to the homepage, but that means I’d have to poke around in the CSS. I am too full of lazy and short-tempered for that, though when it finally infuriates me badly enough I may try to fix it.
Right now I’m just glad the stupid blog is visible. That in and of itself is a small miracle, thanks in no small part to just how tough it was to get both this and PopFi running off my hosting space. Now if I could just get the Analytics code to run on SB (and to make the site more google robot friendly with post titles with words in them, rather than numbers…)
