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Changes are afoot

I’m working on a new version of my website. It will not be WordPress, but I’ll probably keep this one as an archive. I have another site that I’ll do the same thing for as well. Just create an archive of them. More later.

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Multi-Site Conversion

The steps to convert a WordPress 3 site to a muti-site isn’t too difficult but there doesn’t seem to be a way to convert one back. You can if you use WP Database Backup. You export only the single site tables and then you import the backup into new WP single site setup. I’ll outline the details in a future post.

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3.0

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0. It was pretty painless. Didn’t have to change my theme or anything. I did upgrade two of the plugins as well. Now to explore 3.0 and see what’s new.

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Upgrade

I finally upgraded my WordPress install to v 2.92. Was stuck on an earlier version because I was using MySQL 4.0. I exported all of my data. Imported it into a new MySQL 5.0 database. Changed the info in the wp-config.php and ran the upgrade. It went pretty smooth. I wanted to change the theme and I installed a few new themes. Didn’t quite like the end result, so I reverted to an older one I already...

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PyCon 2010

I’ll be attending PyCon 2010 in Atlanta in a couple of days. This will make my 5th trip to the conference. I started going because I inherited a Zope website. Zope isn’t the best introduction to Python but there you have it. I went because it was the closest I’d thing in price and time to getting more information about Zope. At the same time I got to learn more about Python and how cool...

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Joomla vs. Drupal vs. WordPress

If I had my druthers I’d rather be working with Django or Plone, but my clients needs are fulfilled with PHP based systems such as WordPress. I’d push Plone or Django but most low cost web hosts aren’t set up for Python based CMSes or web apps. I’ve played with several PHP based systems: e107, Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. I’ve got the most experience with WordPress and the...

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Test Post

Playing with permalinks.