Don’t worry, not much is going to change. All blog.fogel.ca permalinks should still work – seamlessly and correctly redirecting to www.fogel.ca. You’ll still get the same ramblings about transit, travel and tech here that you used to get from blog.fogel.ca.

I also used the move as an opportunity to switch up my hosting from a shared Dreamhost machine to a full VPS with Linode. (BTW, Linode is the third VPS provider I’ve been with – and they’re the best I’ve found. Definitely recommended.) And I moved some of my image hosting to my Flickr account… which was working great until I discovered their active-image limit of 204 images. Doh! Wish I had known that 204 images ago.

I’m still using Wordpress, and I’m using the constructor theme, with some custom mods. Hope you like orange!

Please let me know if you see anything that doesn’t look quite right.

The upgrade process from 2.5 was relatively painless. This isn’t actually what I did, but if I was going to do it again, this is how I’d do it. I did all this stuff, just out of order and with needless downtime.

1. Full backup (cp -rp) of the wordpress filesystem, full mysqldump of the database. Copied both to remote server.
2. Updated all my plugins to the latest and greatest. Spotcheck that all is good, another round of backups.
3. Disabled caching, cleared the cache.
4. In wp-content/plugins/, did

   svn pd svn:externals

5. In wordpress’ root dir, did

   svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.2/ ./

6. Fixed up permissions by doing

   find ./ -type f -exec chmod XXX {} \;
   find ./ -type d -exec chmod YYY {} \;
   

   from wordpress root dir, where XXX and YYY are the minimum permissions required by your webserver configuration for files and directories.

7. Added some more random permission fixes, like webserver write to wp-content/cache/, etc.

And… wordpress upgraded the db for me on the first administrator login, I re-enabled my plugins without incident, made another round of backups, and it looks all good to go. Plz let me know if you notice anything a little wack!

Also, some hacking to get the little subtitle under the post title to display the tags, not the category, which I don’t really use.

Really, just an excuse to try out the new tripped out admin interface. Silky smooth.

¡Y hablaba español!