I updated the blog theme to the latest version today, hoping it would fix some format errors that I had to manually fix in the previous versions. Please let me know if anything doesn’t work or looks wierd on your browsers. I’ve tested for the past few hours but I could be missing something…
Yup that right, Joe and Jamie’s Blog turned one year old today. I can’t believe a year has gone by already. I am just thinking how one year ago I sat here not knowing anything about blogs or Wordpress, and comparing it to what it is today.
I have enjoyed blogging very much over the past year. It is something I look forward to after each event we go to or fun thing we do. Jamie laughs at me when I run upstairs to get the camera, or get bumbed out if I forget it. I like the idea of having a journal of what we do to reference in the future, and having it online to be accessible anywhere and share with friends is even better.
So hooray for one year, can’t wait for the next. Thanks to all the readers and supporters out there.
Kinda got lazy for a few weeks, not really busy, just pure laziness. I have a ton of posts I want to write. I just rambled off three of them, be on the look out for a few more tonight and some more tomorrow. Be sure to read them all, some cool stuff happened in February.
100 Posts Milestone
We’ve made it to the first milestone…100 posts!! I can’t believe it took me almost a year, but hey, I’m here now!
I love how my spam comments are ten times greater than my actual comments, but I’m sure thats normal.
Thanks to all the constant readers out there. Maybe during the next 100 Jamie might actually post at least one of them!
I was getting very tired of the last theme. The huge header really bugged me, along with a few other small things. I like how this theme looks and does the comments pages. I decided to remove all the junk from the sidebar as well, which I think helps make it look cleaner and neater. I chose the free theme iNove, found on Wordpress.org.
So…how do you like it?
Not sure if the average reader would notice this, but the domain name and URL has changed of the blog. Don’t worry, all the old links will still copy over to the exact posts with the new domain.
So here’s the change:
http://www.josephhannigan.com/blog2
is now
http://www.joeandjamie.com/blog
Update your links – www.joeandjamie.com
This is something that always has bugged me since day one. I don’t know what took me so long to do this, would have been much faster if I had done it when I had three posts and a small database.
Over the next week you may experience different looks of the blog. I will be testing some new themes. Quite frankly I have grown board with this one. I did put a lot of work into making it what it is though, I remember all the long nights tweaking the page code.
Since this was a bit of a daunting task (more me worrying about screwing it up more than anything), I want to share the articles I found that were very helpful.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress -This article is hands down the most important. It is narrowed down to each specific type of move you could be doing. Whether you are changing subdirectories or servers, this is the document for you.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL – This article goes deeper with the database changes to be made. I found it just as easy to backup the database, edit it in a good text editor (not notepad) to update the links, then restore it.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup
The trickiest part was figuring out how not to lose the old links. I am sure most will drop from the search engines, but I do have a handful of direct links which I didn’t want to lose. I found documents on .htaccess redirect rules which did the trick. The following site from Apache has all the mod aliases you can use. The RedirectMatch worked best for me.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html
This is the code that I have in my old blog’s folder .htaccess file.
RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog2/(.*)$ http://www.joeandjamie.com/blog/$1
This keeps everything after www.joeandjamie.com/blog/ and puts it after www.joeandjamie.com/blog/ essentially pointing all old links to the new URLs, which is exactly what I wanted! I couldn’t be any happier.
Another important step was getting the image URLs updated. This wasn’t done during any other step because they are part of the content in the post. I very luckily stumbled across a wonderful plugin to take care of this for me.
http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/ – This plugin allows you to enter the old URL and the new one and presto-magico its done…I wish everything were that simple…
I learned a bunch of neat stuff tonight. Feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try my best to help.
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