PigPog

When we moved everything over to WordPress (from Drupal), we lost some data.

• All posts lost their ‘author’ setting – for old posts, the site has no idea if they were written by me or Sam.
• Tags and categories – they did come over, but in such a mess that they had to be deleted. There aren’t simple parallels between Drupal’s Taxonomy system and WordPress’ Categories and Tags.
• ‘Static’ navigation – though we’d mostly moved away from that anyway.

We’re trying to go through old posts, editing them to add back the author, and apply suitable tags and categories, but with over 2,000 old entries, we just aren’t going to get around to doing them all. I’ve done quite a few of the recent ones, and I’ll work through some more yet, then start trying to update the most popular posts.

I’ll also have a go at putting in some relatively ‘static’ navigation pages, too. There are some posts on PigPog that a lot of people come to us looking for. We might as well make them easy for people to find. I’ll probably try this over the next week or two.

The photos in the top-right corner of each page are randomly picked from a list. I’ll replace the default ones with some photos of my own soon, too. It will feel a bit more like home once I’ve done that, as that was one of the last things I did to our own custom theme under Drupal – adding a random photo next to the title section at the top of the page.

Beyond that, we’ll try to actually update more often, though that will mean more short ‘blog-like’ posts, with less concern for quality. If the static navigation works, though, that shouldn’t matter too much. We just want to get back to the point where the site is a fun extra to our lives – recently, it’s been taking over, or just ignored. We want it to be part of our lives, but we don’t want it to be our lives any more.