Just when I was getting back into the swing of posting regularly, the underpinnings of the site started breaking down in strange and troublesome ways. First comment counts stopped working, followed by the commenting itself, and finally admin access kept flaking out on me. So this morning, I took the site down for an hour and a half and for all intents and purposes, rebooted it.
I had already been working on cleaning up things on my web host for the better part of the week, and this has been planned for a while now. Of course, with the fragile nature of the content, I was taking my time to make sure nothing got lost in the process. It should have been a lot easier than it was, but by default WordPress lacks an export feature for its content, which frustrated me to no end. Eventually I found a nice export plugin to do the job, but this should be part of the default setup.
I still have some work to do. I’m moving photos around, so old pics are going to be M.I.A. for the time being, and the recently posted ones have lost their formatting info. The sooner I take care of the dull and boring aspects of this, the sooner I can get to work on the redesign.
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