Wasting Time & Searching

Well have been procrastinating. Been avoiding working on the PD session for Monday on our Elearning Portal.

It started with me finding an old blog that my wife had used back in 2006. The blog, an LA growth portfolio, was on my Surpass account and I had forgotten about it. The blog started out on Nucleus and then was ported to WordPress. I must have backed it up so I would keep my son’s old work alive.

My wife was at an UBD conference in Singapore and when I told her about it she mentioned that the links did not all work and the blog was running from newest to oldest post. She wanted it going from oldest to newest and was wondering if I could get the links to actually open something. She was hoping to use the blog as an example of how we could integrate media and writing as part of a hardware proposal she had just made.

Took me a while to upgrade from WP 2.2 but in the end I had it in WordPress 2.71.

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’); (mydigital.info)

I created an empty database and backed up the old data base then tried to figure out how to change the link structure. Found this old post of how you could do this using SQL:

The changes took less than a second, never tried that before…. the next step was reversing the order of the blog. Read a few things about changing the index.php file but in the end did another search for a plugin to change the order form oldest to newest and found the following.

This is a simple plugin that enables users to modify the order in which posts are displayed on all pages(or in selected categories) of the blog. (wordpress.org)

So the blog is available for her to use. I wonder about the missing media maybe I have that somewhere as well.

Have to figure out how to better use these blockquotes quotes as well.