Category: <span>Blogging</span>

I applied this morning for Facebook Instant Articles. There’s a plug-in for WordPress that will create FBIA feeds, so fingers crossed that it’s easy to get working.

Blogging Web

radioProductShotIt may take some time for the DNS change to propagate, and there are certainly going to be some broken incoming links, but I just finished the bulk of the work to port my Radio UserLand site here.

All of the posts from jake.userland.com are in a new Jake’s Radio ‘Blog category, in addition to preserving their original categories (some of which overlap with ones that were already here).

That leaves just one site to port in before my entire blogging life will live here at jakesavin.com.

(Of course I have a bunch of other sites too, and I have yet to decide what to do with each of them.)

 

Ps. I fixed the problem I was having with redirecting old content into the new site. Turns out I wasn’t properly escaping backslash characters in the script that generated my .htaccess file, so mod_rewrite was looking for “d{4}”, meaning “dddd”—instead of “\d{4}”, meaning four digits in a row. So all of the incoming links via jake.userland.com should now work—the ones I know about at least.

Blogging Jake's Radio 'Blog WordPress

Hi all—here’s an update following my previous post asking for some WordPress advice: I pulled the trigger, and now all of the content from Jake.EditThisPage.com is ported over to JakeSavin.com. Amazingly it worked right the first time! When does that ever happen?

Most, if not all of the links into the old site now redirect to the right place here. For the moment they’re temporary redirects, but after a bit more testing I’ll make them permanent so they’ll get picked up by search engines and the like. And contrary to my initial fears, the problem with pages living at multiple URLs was able to be easily resolved by redirecting via mod_rewrite rules in my .htaccess file.

404: Just say no!

The content of that site spans the period from December 22, 1999 to March 11, 2003, and all of the posts from that site are in their own category to make them easy to find.

Next I’m going to write some code to export my Radio UserLand site to WXR (WordPress eXtended RSS) format, so I can merge that content in too. I know a lot more now than I did when I started this work with Manila, so it should be quite a bit easier. After that, a one-off exporter for my custom WebsiteFramework site, Jspace.org. That one goes way back to 1997!

Blogging Jake's Brainpan WordPress