The move to WordPress is complete | Comments (5)
Posted in Muffin Research Labs on 27th February 2006, 7:23 pm by Stuart
I have pretty much completed the move to WordPress and I am very pleased to be finally here. It’s taken quite a lot of mangling the themes and other bits and pieces to get my old blog over to WordPress.
The feeds are all up and running and I have made a few adjustments along the way. The things that I decided to change were pretty minor; a few styles have been tweaked and markup has been improved in the few places that I needed to (in pursuit of perfection). The greatest thing about this move is greater control and freedom and hopefully things will work out just fine.
The whole site is running with wp-cache so I don’t expect to be hammering the server too hard. wp-cache is very well executed and is just what I was looking for to replace the full caching I had built into my own system. The Gravatars plugin I am using caches the gravatars which will come in very handy for the odd time that Gravatar.com goes down as well as making sure the pages load as fast as possible.
I have set up handling of all of the old urls and everything should be found through redirections if it has moved. I took the opportunity to dump the www subdomain from this site whilst carrying out the move, so if you have any links to my site feel free to change them. In any case anything that comes in to www.muffinresearch.co.uk will be swiftly redirected to muffinresearch.co.uk.
Having just moved over, please do let me know if you find anything has gone a bit awry. If you wish to get in touch then please contact me via the contact form.
I’m trying to install the WP-Cache plugin, but I get this:
I have NO IDEA how to do what it’s telling me to do…
Well basically it’s asking you to create a symbolic link on your server. To make it work you need to open up a shell on your server/computer and paste and execute the line beginning “ln -s”. This will then create a symbolic link to advanced-cache.php.
If you don’t have SSH/terminal access then you might have a problem. Check out the installation instructions and see if you can do it an easier way.
It all looks good Steve. Seems that your move to the darkside was completely successful:)
I wouldn’t mind but my name’s Stuart :-). Still at 7.09am it’s probably before you got round to having a coffee!
Ah sorry about that Stuart:) I was catching up with my weekend email and, well, you can see that I clearly can’t multi-task very well:)
And you’re right; I shouldn’t be allowed near a computer before my morning coffee:)