Site Upgrades

By Daniel Miessler on July 26th, 2007: Tagged as Blogging | Programming

So I made some progress tonight on site.

  1. Implemented the first version of my custom theme. Got it to work with wp-cache.
  2. Enabled the no-www plugin that redirects www.dmiessler.com to dmiessler.com.
  3. Changed my permalink structure from /archives/post_id to /category/postname.
So, yeah — good stuff.





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5 Comments »

  1. I like the look of the site, though it’s hard to read. The font doesn’t pop enough off the screen with the page color you have.

    Comment by Steve — 7/26/2007 @ 6:14 am

  2. Hi Daniel, just a note about changing your permalink structure - it breaks your old permalinks (that might be linked to by other sites or indexed in Google, etc). There are plugins such as Dean’s permalink Migration Plugin that you can use stop the old links from breaking.

    Also, just a warning about using /category/postname/. Many people suggest this, but using category isn’t sensible unless you are very sure that your categories won’t change. If you change them as your blog matures, you break your permalinks. Also, if you post using the wrong category, then you can’t change the category without breaking the permalink.

    Comment by Stephen Cronin — 7/27/2007 @ 9:54 am

  3. I see that you have switched over to /archive/postname, which I did a couple weeks ago and I think it is much better. This is what I did: http://robbycolvin.info/archives/refreshing-permalinks-in-wordpress/

    I do agree with Steve that it is a little hard to read some times. And the only other thing is that the main comment textarea flows too far to the right behind your “Popular” section.

    Other than that, I really like the speed and simplicity of it all!

    Comment by Robby — 7/27/2007 @ 11:06 pm

  4. @Robby

    Thanks for the comment. Now that I have a basic functioning theme I’m going to work on fixing all the issues with presentation. I currently have no 404.php page, no comments.php page, no single or page.php — nothing. Everything you see in my theme is just one page — index.php.

    So as I learn more about WordPress themes I’m going to create all these pages myself.

    By the way, I only had to install the Permalinks migration plugin and mine is working fine. Just wanted to let you know…

    Comment by Daniel Miessler — 7/28/2007 @ 10:52 am

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    Comment by John — 11/22/2007 @ 1:18 am

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