Creating this blog on its own server hasn’t been too difficult but there were some issues.

The import process knocked out all of the comments on these posts for a start. Also Clustrmaps, which like the hit count sites, are all domain specific so if I want Clustrmaps on the new site then it will depressingly start blank, as will the hit counts sites.

All of the posts that have been on Digg, and are still being pointed to from Digg, will need to stay on the old blog and will never point to the new blog version. Of course all new entries that I get Digg to look at will be pointed to the new version, so from now on that will switch. Maybe all entries on the old blog that aren’t pointed at by Digg can be deleted. Trouble is there are other pointers to some of these old entries can be found from Google and lord knows where else.

Lastly how do I get anyone who subscribes, via RSS, to resubscribe to the new blog. I think I have replicated all of the subscribe links and even display them in the same order, apart from the fact that they are currently buried at the bottom left of the page rather than where they should be at the top left. Maybe I should just take the hit and delete the old blog and be done with it.

That will trash my hit count for months.

Quote of the day

‘Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much’ John Wayne (1907-1979)

Tried a few plug-ins for wordpress blogs in an attempt to replicate this blog.

Seems quite straightforward. Find plug-in, download it, unzip it, FTP it to the plug-ins folder on the server and go to the plug-ins page on Wordpress and activate it.

Tried a few and a couple worked and a couple failed miserably. I don’t think I was attempting anything too adventurous just a hit counter. No doubt I wasn’t ’running it right’. Will try more later. I’m going to have fun with this.

The book I have been using is just too confusing. Now I have no doubt that the writer is an expert in the Wordpress world but the distinctions in the book for the processing of Wordpress.com blogs, hosted blogs and own hosted blogs are not clear at all. The section on servers was interesting but sent me down a few dead ends. It gave me the impression that I needed to install both Apache and MySQL which I duly did.

Wrong, you only need to do that if you are running your own server. If you buy web hosting then the hosting company run Apache to serve the pages and also provide you with the facility for creating a MySQL database on their server. Well they say create a database, but that’s it. I think it toddles off and does ‘create database mydatabase’. You aren’t required to stipulate any tables or anything else.

All sounds very obvious with hindsight but probably confused a few others too.

Quote of the day

‘If there were no God, there would be no Atheists’ G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)