Comments on: Great rename in progress

By: Federico Bianchi

Federico Bianchi — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 06:28:56 +0000

wp-cli is extremely useful for such tasks (and many others)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:06:51 +0000

In reply to DOS.

Yeah I broke something messing around, and I can’t quite figure out what I did. Those pages are so obsolete….. I may have to re-build the menu and re-create the pages or just delete them all together.

I was thinking of getting a more flashy theme and dumping the old blog style. I was looking at something more click-bait like, as it works well with images which I have plenty of.

I’m thinking of shaking some stuff real hard although the underpinning out to be ok. I think.

Now that I can clear the bots, I only get 400-500 real visitors a day with 3000-5000 page views. Looks like people are more engaged, but I don’t have much reach. I’m sure the long domain+non standard address didn’t help, but after 10 years I’m hoping to be more accomplished. Of course that means writing better…

By: DOS

DOS — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:25:12 +0000

I just noticed after posting that that where there used to be a drop down menu in the banner it seems to be broken now – all the links are listed out horizontally instead.

By: DOS

DOS — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:19:23 +0000

The old host name for the BBS was too long to fit in the phone number field in Telemate (running under DOSBox so ATDT means something), maybe this will help 🙂

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:58:46 +0000

I also had to use something called blue velvet to run through the database. I have some redirect scheme in Apache setup so that the old domain redirects to the new with the same path, an it has aliases for all the domains so it’ll catch them all.

The side effect is that I have over 2,300 redirects from the old domain, so now I’m my biggest referer. But I don’t sell advertising, so it really doesn’t matter as I’m the one that gets to look at the numbers and it’s really not that, as I got a bit more aggressive about eliminating bots from the stats.

It’s all kind of a mess, but it works out OK.

By: Steven Hoefel

Steven Hoefel — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:37:25 +0000

Always happy to learn quick hacks for WordPress… but isn’t the ‘find’ string meant to differ from the ‘replace’ string?
Much easier URL to remember when in need of some nostalgique as well!
Whilst switching from http to https, I had to find/replace all of those token as well. Slightly more of a nightmare as not all of the new URLs actually worked.