Well, my weekend redesign/server move seemed to go well. But then I did a couple posts and tried to implement a few tweaks and things began to go downhill. My main problem was I picked the wrong theme for how I wanted to maintain this site. I used WP-Clear by Solostream which was a theme I liked the look of and it had some nice features. It wasn’t a bad theme and it actually suited the reason I picked it. The problem was – I had the wrong priorities. I’d [...] Read the rest »
Redirection via WordPress Plugin
When I was moving my site to a new host I figured I’d have broken links, especially since I was making a change to the structure. So I had installed the Redirection plugin by John Godley at Urban Giraffe. As part of it’s functionality it tracks 404 erros and allows for the easy creation of redirects for those URLs. It doesn’t require .htaccess to make the changes. While I hadn’t intended to use it to handle redirection for the /blog directory change, I decided to give it a try once [...] Read the rest »
URL Redirection
Previously, I had installed WordPress into a sub-directory called “/blog”. It seemed like a good idea at the time in case I wanted to build a website around the blog. But WordPress ended up being the entire website CMS and I never needed more than WordPress had to offer. So when I moved the website to Bluehost I decided to install WordPress to the root directory. But this meant all the old URLs would break since they included the blog directory as in http://theosquest.com/blog. I didn’t want those links to [...] Read the rest »
