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Switching webhost

james — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:39:42 +0000

I am in the middle of switching from Bluehost to Hostmonster. Yes I know they are owned and operate out of the same facility. When it came to renew my account it was going to cost me 6.95 a month for a 3 year renewal with bluehost. So I switched to hostmonster at the 3.95 a month rate for 3 years. They would not budge on giving me that rate for renewing at bluehost. Hopefully hostmonster is just as good as bluehost has been. So far so good. I am on a 8 core machine instead of the old 4 core machine from what I can tell. After I get everything moved and setup, I will post again. Hopefully I am not breaking much in the move and reconfigure.

Testing after updating subscribe2

james — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:50:48 +0000

I found out that the post notifications plugin is not supported in wordpress 2.7. I have remove it and enabled subscribe2 once again. Hopefully notifications are working again.

WordPress updated

james — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:54:26 +0000

Just updated the blog to wordpress 2.6. Let me know if you see any problems. Looks to be working fine.

Blog software updated

james — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:39:28 +0000

Today I finally got around to updated wordpress for one of the blogs I host. I will probably upgrade the other one tomorrow if all works out on this blog.

Upgraded WordPress

james — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:02:49 +0000

Just finished upgrading this blog to wordpress 2.3. Let me know if you see anything acting up.

Blog Updated to WordPress 2.2

james — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:51:00 +0000

Blog updated to wordpress 2.2. Let me know if you see problems at all. Looks like once again it went very smooth.

New host at bluehost

james — Fri, 11 May 2007 12:46:13 +0000

Last night I was moved over to a new host. I had requested this because I wanted to start using mediawiki. I have been working on the config on a box at my house and was ready to move it up to bluehost. It needed php 5.x and my old host was still on 4.x. This move has actually gone pretty smooth. Cpanel settings are all back to what I believe they should be and a few problems I have resolved by restoring files from a backup I did pretty much all yesterday. Let me know if you see any strange problems that may have been caused by this move. Soon I will make my wiki public accessible. I just need to finish locking pages down and what not.

New plugin for pictures

james — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:54:26 +0000

I finally have a new plugin called WPG2 working in wordpress. It makes it very easy to include pictures from Gallery V2 into any blog entry. I figure I will be wanting to post pictures along with my blog posts here shortly and this is a very easy way to do this. I figure I have more configuring but I have figured out it does not play well with Popularity Contest by Alex King. I also figured out you have to have public access to the pictures you want to post. You cannot require gallery accounts to view the images. I think I can work around both of these issues.

Upgraded to WP 2.1

james — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:34:03 +0000

Hopefully the upgrade does not break anything major. So far everything seems to be functioning just fine.

How to pull stats from wordpress

james — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:58:14 +0000

Some nice select statments that Alex King was kind enough to show us.

Total # of posts in 2006:

SELECT COUNT(*)

FROM  `wp_posts`

WHERE post_date >= '2006-01-01'

AND post_date < '2007-01-01'

AND post_status = 'publish'

Total # of comments in 2006:

SELECT COUNT(*)

FROM  `wp_comments`

WHERE comment_date >= '2006-01-01'

AND comment_date < '2007-01-01'

AND comment_approved = '1'

Average length of posts in 2006:

SELECT AVG(LENGTH(post_content))

FROM `wp_posts`

WHERE post_date >= '2006-01-01'

AND post_date < '2007-01-01'

AND post_status = 'publish'

Total length of all posts in 2006:

SELECT SUM(LENGTH(post_content))

FROM  `wp_posts`

WHERE post_date >= '2006-01-01'

AND post_date < '2007-01-01'

AND post_status = 'publish'