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Wordpress, Blogger and other ways of driving yourself mad.

December 31, 2008

My blog here at woodgen.com has been running a fairly long time as blog lifetimes go – since May 2007 to be precise. Along the way, I have had the usual frustrations experienced by anyone running their own sites – outages, lost data recalcitrant scripts and the like. Inevitably, as I added more functionality (ie [...]

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Backdating is Possible!

December 26, 2008

For Blogger posts that is. I have been able to extract my old Wordpress posts one by one and am now in the process of bringing them over here. It is a long-winded way round but as far as I can see, it’s the only way to do it and I am glad that it [...]

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Welcome to my latest attempt at a blog

December 25, 2008

Well if you made it over here from my old blog, you’ll understand that I am totally pissed-off with Wordpress. Trying to upgrade to version 2.7 completely hosed my blog and all the archived entries have become inaccessible. I don’t know if I’ll have better luck here but it’s worth a try I guess.
If you [...]

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Cover Ordered

June 12, 2007

Well, the first item arising from my lessons learned is underway. I have just ordered a half cover from Priced Right Ltd. I chose them because they had it in stock and online ordering for it unlike Fatboyzdiner (where did they get that name?) who wanted a phone call and 10 days to source it. [...]

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Wordpress Glitches

May 15, 2007

I chose Wordpress for this blog having seen how flexible it appeared and also the wealth of themes and plugins around the net. Setting it up has mostly been a trouble-free experience, including making a few posts and adding a variety of plugins to do stuff like displaying photos. However, a couple of glitches have [...]

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Just Installed Wordpress

May 12, 2007

Another Goldwing owner uses Wordpress for his Goldwing Blog and it looks very smart so I thought I would give it a try. Installation could hardly be simpler, I wonder how usage will be and what it takes to develop a nice theme of my own? Basically, I like simple elegant themes – I hate [...]

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Am I mad?

May 12, 2007

I have gone bonkers and just ordered the biggest and most expensive motorcycle in regular production. Whether this will turn out to be a happy decision or a stupid mistake, I shall just have to wait and find out – I shall try to tell it like it is in this blog. I should also [...]

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