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migration blues

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

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Migrate-WordpressThis should have been the “piece of cake” part, after sorting out the way I was going to structure my new website (with the help of my pal – and SEO guru – @IrlandesnMalaga. I was even quite pleased with myself that I managed to install all the blogs onto the new website myself. The thing is, I have three blogs on one domain that I want to move over to the new one… no problem, right? Everything is on WordPress, I’ve done this many, many times before without a hitch. But they HAVE ALL GONE TERRIBLY WRONG. Like, seriously wrong. I’m at my wits end. So now everything is at a standstill, probably until I get back from Antequera/Archidona. Ah well…

learning joomla

13 Monday Aug 2012

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It all started when my friend Juan wanted a new website for Vineria San Telmo. I’ve been taking care of his restaurant blog and other social media stuff for a couple of years and I was quite excited to hear about the new website, and also that the plan was to move the WordPress.com blog I’d started over to the new place. I assumed that the website designers were just going to copy the WP.com blog over to a WP.org install and no pasa nada. Well… wrong!

And so I am now learning Joomla. I can see how it makes sense for the website (which looks very nice, don’t you think?) but it’s a very clumsy blogging platform. I’ve had one “Joomla class” with the designer and then was able to figure out some other stuff on my own, but there is still some tweaking for him to do so that the blog looks right and functions properly, and still a LOT of work for me to do on the posts, which didn’t arrive at their new home in the same state as they left the old one. Anyhow, I’ve got the first few posts fixed so let me know what you think… New Vineria Blog

For comparison… Old Vineria Blog

Normally I love learning new geeky stuff, and this is actually quite interesting. It’s just that it’s not as efficient for blogging and I’ve read that Joomla can be a bit “buggy”. Well, it’s something else I can put in my portfolio.

infinitely irritating

29 Tuesday May 2012

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WTF WordPress.com?? What happened to being the coolest free blogging platform in the universe?

First of all there was the annoying addition of unwanted advertising (unless you PAY WordPress to have it removed). And now this crap.

Infinite scroll.

Well, I don’t bloody want infinite scrolling and it seems I can’t get rid of it on this theme (that I know and love) and so will have to switch to some other theme that has a footer widget I can disable – Timethief has written this helpful blog post showing us how.  But according to this support forum thread that option will also be removed once all themes have been converted.

Since when did WordPress.com become Facebook, forcing idiotic unwanted changes on its users? Not only is infinite scroll irritating, there is that totally naff pop-up “advertisement” on the bottom, for the theme designer and for WordPress.com, that blocks the blog post.

I want out.

where to go?

15 Friday Jul 2011

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Since I started using Twitter I’ve been uploading photos to my various accounts using Twitpic. I’ve often thought about using another service because I didn’t like that you couldn’t search for pics or archive them properly, but as all my pics were already in one place and there was no easy way of moving them I decided to stay put.

Then Twitpic changed its terms of use, basically giving them rights over everyone’s uploaded photos. So when I heard about the Twitpic Export tool created by Steven Bullen, this seemed to be the answer. I’ve exported all of my photos from the Sevilla Tapas Twitpic (or at least I think I have) but now I have to decide where to import them. The three main contenders are WordPress, Tumblr and Posterous. I really like what fellow foodie Rosana has done with her Tumblr photo blog (I especially like the archive pages) and would like to have something similar for Sevilla Tapas, for the pics I upload to Twitter. But I wonder if there is a similar photo-friendly WP theme that would do the same thing, as I much prefer working with WordPress.

Any suggestions?

octopi (via raincoaster)

07 Sunday Nov 2010

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There, my first reblog. Didn’t even know this could be done. Thanks Rain.

Love this octopi, don’t you?

Octopi Now, divide by zero and join in a rousing chorus of HAIL CTHULHU! On Tumblr, this post has been reblogged 1607 times. Let’s see how WordPress.com does in comparison. My bet? Less than 1% as many; in fact, my bet is zero reblogs. … Read More

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Also found out yesterday that you can embed tweets here, like so…

Isn’t WordPress the greatest?