Hmmm, redesign?
Posted: Fri 29 December, 2006 Filed under: D4D™, Getting Organised, Thoughts 4 Comments »Over the christmas break, I’ve been thinking a lot about whether or not to upgrade and redesign D4D™ to WordPress 2 (the last upgrade was a pig, so it’s going to take some deliberation)
At the same time, I’m also thinking about whether to keep the old content – the rants, thoughts, etc. – as they’re all at least two years old now, if not three, and thus are fairly old and out-of-date.
So it could be that I don’t redesign per se but do reorganise, or I could do all of it. I just haven’t decided yet which I’ll do.
I think there’s definitely going to be some upgrading of WordPress etc. – I’ve been getting a butt-load of weird spam over the last couple of weeks, which seems to be slipping through the older plugins etc. – and probably some redirection of old pages to new locations etc.
Obviously I’ll keep everything as up-to-date as possible, and do the redirections etc. in order to keep everyone’s links working and the like. As for the rest of it, wait and see…
If I recall correctly, the move from 1.5 to 2.0 was a lot easier than from 1.2 to 1.5 (but then it was a long, long time go).
A very belated welcome to Aaalburgh, by the way. I really should have been stopping by more often.
Yup 1.5 to 2.0 was easy for most people, no doubt you’ve hacked at loads of stuff and so it’ll be a pain in the ass.. 😉
Me? I’m seriously considering switching to a theme, easier to maintain, work with, etc etc. And right now, easy is good.
Yeah, there’s been an amount of hackery to get things working. But the big issue is the difference between themes and the current layout stuff I use.
I’ll figure it out, sometime in the new year. Any input from people will be gladly appreciated.
When you upgrade your current layout is saved as the new default theme for the blog. Maybe I was lucky, but I didn’t have any major problems converting from the style to the theme.
If you do get stuck, of course, I am fairly local …