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Although no one can read this page yet, unless they’re clever, I’m going to post a list of things that have helped me on this re-design.
This is how Josh and I decided to go about this blog.
Although we considered this, multiple blogs seemed like the best answer, mostly because excluding categories would require a lot of recategorizing. (associated links: advanced category excluder, a plugin i was considering and detailed directions to do it by hand.)
When setting all this up, somehow we broke AT&A proper. the short story is we first had a 500 error on this site, thne fixed that and something was wrong with the terms table, so I had to upgrade my database, then a 404 error kept popping up. Eventually, it was something wrong with the naming we did in conjuction with a redirect and then the database upgrade. I’ll try to link to pages we used along the way, in chronological order.
The database situation. Link
Codex for backing up and upgrading databases. (I had a hell of a time working with 1and1 on this. Stop outsourcing CS!) Link and link
This fixed the weird renaming situation. Link
There was a final login error having to do with the wp-login.php file. I downloaded a patch from this thread. Link
And so finally we got here. I’m now running on k2 RC3 and doing just fine, so far. I’ll update this post as I go along in the process. I’ll leave it here when we launch.
Plug-ins I’m using:
the quickpost plugin helps me post a bit more often here. It basically makes this blog a tumblelog. (I considered the tumblr bookmarklet, and may use it if quickpost doesn’t work out.)
Share This is the best plugin I’ve found for networking sites. I customize mine to add StyleHive as well.
All-in-one SEO pack is a plug-in I’ve considered for a long time and I’m going to see if it makes any difference.
Adsense Manager is a popular adsense helper. I’ll see if it makes adsense work better for me.
Simple Tags is a plugin that helped me out a ton as I went back and retagged everything. I started tagging randomly then realized I totally forget when i stopped so I used the untagged posts feature.
WP-Polls to well, add polling.
WP-Contact form to hopefully get more press releases my way.
Related posts, to see if that’ll get people to stay around longer.
WWSGD will ask people to subscribe to this feed.
Redirectify is helping with navigation between AT&A and Tumblr.
WP-Sticky is going to introduce people to the new design.
