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By: Introducing the Gigantic theme for WordPress - Leon Paternoster

Introducing the Gigantic theme for WordPress - Leon Paternoster — Sat, 16 May 2009 10:19:37 +0000

[...] It’s designed to be a very simple, stylish theme that displays your content with a minimum of fuss. Influences include minimalsites and, somewhere in the background, Dan Mall. Several very nice people contributed their ideas. [...]

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:10:54 +0000

Well, I found a host that will manage the move for you. I have to say that WP WebHost have been absolutely brilliant; they've moved 2 wp installations and even arranged for 301 redirects after I moved the blog to the top level of my domain, so I don't lose my RSS subscribers or SE rating.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:10:16 +0000

Again, not really – I didn’t feel they were particularly important. I guess some may be time sensitive, so I’ll think about adding them in again.

By: Leon

Leon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:08:02 +0000

Thanks Vivien – I really appreciate the overview and the links.

I actually have quite a simple blog (one user, light on plugins, zero widgets): I may try using the XML import/export first.

By: Michael Tuck

Michael Tuck — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:24:21 +0000

Rock it, Vivien. :) I’ve bookmarked those tutorials for my use as well.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:00:39 +0000

ok, here are the online tutorials: 1) Moving WordPress (from Codex) 2) 6 things to remember when moving WordPress blogs to a different host Hope it helps.

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:50:11 +0000

btw, personally I prefer to see the dates on comments as well for the same reasons that readers prefer seeing the posts timestamped.
Any specific reasons why you’re not showing them in your theme?

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:46:37 +0000

I think what you need to do is:
1) Back up your blog(s): filed + database
2) Install local copies of all your blogs and make sure you didn’t lose anything and locally they run as smoothly as online
3) rather than waiting to drop your existing host before moving your sites, I’d recommend you to sign up with a new host and set up your sites there while you’re still with the old host.
You can test your sites using the IP address, make sure everything works fine, and then you can change the DNS settings on all your domains to point to the new host. Test them there. If something goes wrong, you can always go back by pointing the domains back to the old host. Once you’re sure you’ve got your sites working properly on the new server, cancel your existing host.

I’ll try finding some online tutorials for you.
Good luck!

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:47:40 +0000

When are you planning on releasing the theme, Leon? I think you should make sure your server will be able to handle the traffic. I bet SM or one of the big gallery sites will feature it and send you lots of traffic.

Probably after I move host. I use the wp-cache plugin, which coped with my last big spike in traffic. It’ll also give me a month or so to get it running perfectly.

BTW could you (or anybody) point me to any info on changing host and moving over several URLs and wp installations. The thought’s filling me with dread!

Thanks,

Leon

By: Leon

Leon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:43:13 +0000

Appreciate that, Michael.

Your doctype is incomplete

The doctype is actually valid, but it’s inappropriate for a WordPress site, which generates XHTML. I’d prefer to use HTML 4, but WordPress XHTMLifies everything, even when you enter your own code (e.g img tags are closed with a forward slash and an angled bracket, rather than an angled bracket on its own).

So I’ll change it to an XHTML doctype.

Your h2 and h3 font-family bits are incorrectly structured

I appear to have got into the habit of omiting the quote marks. I’ll add them, but I don’t actually think it makes a difference: v4 used Lucida Grande as its first choice, and that was picked up without quotes. I’m willing to be corrected on this!

you’ve created yourself a big ol’ spam magnet

I’ve always given out my email address quite freely and trusted in gmail’s spam filters. I get about 20 spam a day, but it’s not caused a problem.

Thanks for taking the time to look through the HTML and CSS: when you’re working in isolation you can miss some pretty simple things.