Sometimes in life you get a fresh start. Sometimes this is a welcome change, in fact, a relief. Other times, this is due to some massive mistake that would take a really…really…long time to fix. Other times, it’s just ‘unfixable’.
I’m hoping it’s more of an option 1 for me, rather than an option 2. As you know, I recently moved hosts, and had to take the site with me, and then set it up on a new server. I followed a bunch of advice forums, tutorials, and comments, and felt as though I had done everything to the letter. Crossed all my t’s, dotted all my i’s. And so it seemed that way. Everything looked fine once I had FTP access, did the Fantastico WP installation, uploaded plugins, etc. Great. And then….
Well, the and then part is where things start to get sticky. Upon trying to import my mysql database, everything got funky. I started getting a bunch o’ weird 404 errors. So, my first thought had to do with the subdomain. As you may have already read in the previous post, I’ve set up a redirect on turnthescrew.com to actually take you to blog.turnthescrew.com. So…perhaps I just need to change all the instances of turnthescrew.com to blog.turnthescrew.com in the mysql database. Did that via a handy free tool, textwrangler. All looked good. Let’s cross our fingers and upload.
Well, WP sees the mysql db as being valid, but now has a bunch of widget errors, incorrect arguments, etc….
Oye vey. Bottle is giving me a hand with this one, and we’re testing over at a super secret URL right now, but as it looks right now…ummm…I kinda f@#)ed up the database. I’m not overly stressed, as there must be a simple solution to this…something that I’m just over looking. Either way, I still have 99% of the original content, it just might be a mind bogglingly big project to copy/paste a massive amount of content, and then restructure the permalinks to match up. Right…all you non-super-nerds out there catch all of this?
In human terms: Umm…I think I made a booboo, but I think I can fix it. Either the easy way, or the annoyingly hard way…it’ll all be back soon.
I really want to say this. You got a very awesome theme here. I love it. Care to tell me where to get this quality of theme?
Fresh Start is not a bad thing on the contrary it will give you a good foundation and more power to continue with.
The theme and blog look terrific. I’m new to your site here and am getting more into good wines lately. The blog layout and style are nice and original. Like the others have said often a fresh start is a blessing. We are going to be launching a few new blogs this week and I always use WP/Fantastico as well. It takes care of WP upgrades pretty smoothly as well, although I tend to wait at least a few weeks after an upgrade is released. So you have 1 new subscriber. Look forward to more posts..best of luck.
Bruce
Hi Irish! While I might know a thing or two about blogging and SEO, I’ll be the first to admit that my css design skills are pretty much limited to cut/paste.
Thanks for the comments on the theme, it’s called Connexion, and I grabbed it from Jin at http://web2feel.com/.
Enjoy!
And again Irish…you’ll see we’ve updated. The new template is available from Derek Punsaian at http://is.derekpunsalan.com/