Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

Okay, maybe, not quite… but since I did already have PHP via FastCGI and MySQL working on my Server 2008 IIS7 and because I already had WordPress running here. It only took about 5 minutes for my to copy the base WordPress folder, type in the 3 lines to create the database, then change 3 lines in the wp-config.php. That was it. Done.

The result? My Mom gets a nice new website at GoStainedGlass.com. Now the really amazing thing here isn’t that WordPress took only 5 minutes for me to set up for her. It’s that I literally took ALL the content that was on her previous static website and converted it over to a dynamic RSS enabled site with about 4 hours worth of work.

Pages were created for the static content, and posts were created for the actual items. Categories serve as navigation points. The tag served as a way to quickly import all her previous photos and have them linked correctly. While she still needs to go back in and provide a title and description for all the images, the important thing was that 100% of the content was moved and the new site went live in under 48 hours from when I first installed.

The only real caveat was the titles actually. I’m sure there’s probably some Plugin to do this, but it was a minor annoyance having to import photos with the actual post so they’d be attached right, oh I couldn’t figure out how to change the photos’ attachment status either to switch to a different post.

I suppose the real test will be to see whether my Mom can now manage her own website, it should be easy enough. If not now that it’s not a total pain in the ass to add content to her site I might not be so lazy about it.

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post.

Well not quite. It’s the first post via WordPress for me. I’m not quite done migrating crap over and certainly haven’t picked a decent theme yet. There are just way way too many to pick from and sadly there’s no way to easily spot those that work with 2.7 so it’s been trial and error for me. I think ultimately I’ll just end up designing and creating my own theme. For now though this will do.

This will be short and sweet since it’s time to go outside and play in the snow . Please update your RSS feeds to point to http://feeds.coreygo.com/coreygo, I’ll be setting a 301 redirect there shortly.

Yay, WordPress FTW.