The story behind my website’s new look

You might have noticed that my blog has a new theme! It’s wonderful that with WordPress, changing to a new theme only takes a few mouse clicks.

However, there was a bit of drama behind why I made the change – unfortunate, but a valuable experience indeed. My website was hacked.

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Broken links (mostly) fixed

Right. A little while ago, I’ve reported that I’ve broken a lot of the links since the move to a new domain name due to the fact that they still pointed to my blog’s old place at WordPress.com (and I’ve locked down my blog so it’s inaccessible). Now I’ve managed to fix it in a way that’s not the most convenient but is effective nonetheless.

I re-exported the blog using WordPress’s export function, which gave me an XML file containing all my blog contents. I did a massive find and replace on all links, and then imported to a new WordPress installation. Simple concept, and works beautifully. The only drawback is the amount of manual work required to set up the blog from scratch again.

Another way I could have done it was by searching through the entries in the database, and changing the links that way, but I kind of feel more comfortable just doing a find and replace on a text file. Maybe I’ll play around with databases a bit later.

The broken links that are left existed from before the move, and it’s good to finally have the tools (WordPress Broken Link Checker Plugin) to report such issues. With a wordpress.com blog, you don’t get that luxury.

Broken links everywhere since the move

It occurred to me that there are now broken links everywhere since I have moved my blog from WordPress.com to my own server. So why is this problem popping now, a while after the move?

Well it’s because I’ve recently flicked the kill switch on my old blog. All the files, photos and links that pointed to my blog at its old location will no longer work (since I’ve killed them off) so it’s become broken.

So it’ll be a while until I manually go and fix up those broken links one by one, unless someone has a better idea of how to rewrite the links automatically?

Move to edmundtse.com – success!

Good news, my blog has a new home at edmundtse.com!

I’ve spent the past day and a bit moving my blog from being hosted at wordpress.com to my own domain. As at now, my blog has now been moved over to its new home, so this post will be the last one for this blog.

So if you want to subscribe to my blog, then please use its new home, because I foresee that this one won’t be updated any more. I wish that wordpress.com had a function that lets me divert existing visitors using HTTP 301.

Thank you for your support!

edmundtse.com

Previously I registered edmundtse.com, and hosted it under Office Live. But since then, blogging using WordPress has proven to be much better suited to my needs. So, very soon, we can expect http://www.edmundtse.com/ to be up and running for my blog!