Wordpress just released another maintenance release on the current version. 2.0.6 was supposed to be the last release on this major version, but a feedburner problem and a security vulnerability were found prompting this release. I will upgrade my blog’s wordpress version over the next few days.
I upgraded the wordpress (software that powers this blog) to 2.0.6. The upgrade was a maintenance release so you will not see anything different on it. I upgraded to make sure I got the security patches included in it. I am looking forward to the next major release for wordpress.
Since I moved the directory that my blog was in, the caching plugin was not working. I finally spent some time troubleshooting it. The problem was the symbolic link that it needed to work. I got that working and reenabled the caching. I am happy to report it is working now. The pages should load a lot faster now.
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It has been a while since the contact form is on the front page of the blog. I also added a page to access this form too. It is reached on the right side bar.
I have spent some time working on my blog. I removed the notable plugin since it was creating invalid HTML and the rest of my site is strictly XHTML 1.0 compliant. I am going to search for a replacement for it. I also got the RSS feeds working correctly. These got broken when I moved the blog into its own directory. I also added a link on the side panel to subscribe to the RSS feed. The caching plugin is still not working. I need to get that one working again. I also fixed the HTML content in Some Interesting Statistics post. It had some formatting left over from word where I composed it. It should look a lot better now, and the blog page is back to strict XHTML 1.0 compliance.
The server that shaylogan.com lives on was down for part of the
afternoon and the evening on Oct 23. The server lost one of its
disks. The hosting company (Site 5) installed a new disk and restored
the data to it. They must be a small company since the COO was giving
the updates on the outage. Service was finally restored at 6:10am
this morning so the outage was around 16 hours. It is amazing how
dependant you get on technology.
I noticed on Thursday that wordpress modifies the htaccess file on apache to redirect the directory requests to it. What this means in non-technical terms is when someone types shaylogan.com or www.shaylogan.com they get redirected to my blog at shaylogan.com/index.php instead of my home page (shaylogan.com/home.php) which was configured before I installed wordpress. I looked at the apache document and did some research on wordpress. The suggested solution was to move the wordpress installation to a subdirectory. I created the directory and move the content under it. I got a little too move happy and moved the files for one of my subdirectories so my discovered my webmail access was broken. I was able to fix it pretty quickly once I figured out what I did. The blog url has changed to www.shaylogan.com/blog/index.php so old address www.shaylogan.com/index.php will redirect to my home page. I hope this change did not mess anyone up.
This is interesting. Google last crawled this site on June 28, 2006 which is quite a while ago. I have added a lot of content since that date through the migration of my blog from myspace to here. The strange thing is, I am getting hits on my website from the google bot as late as yesterday (Oct 1, 2006). I setup it in google’s webmaster tools and created a sitemap. Now MSN has craweled a lot later. It looks like they have last crawled in early September. Here’s the search comparison: Google and MSN.
It will be interesting to see when my blog posts show up in google. I am debating about copying my blog posts that were on myspace to here. What does everyone think, good idea or bad idea?
It has been a few days since I have updated my blog. I found this
site which kind of interesting called tourfilter.com. They track
local club listings for music acts. Dallas is one of their covered
cities. You can see the local Dallas site here:
http://dallas.tourfilter.com/. I added my profile for toursite to the
sidebar so hopefully it will start showing bands I like that are
coming to Dallas.
I installed wp-cache this afternoon. The purpose of this wordpress plug-in is to cache the entries so that each page request does not hit the database. It is not necessary at this point, but it does lessen to load on my hosting company’s server. It caches for 60 minutes right now.