5 Jul
We have actually had some very interesting videos of animals that I haven’t shared yet and decided that today was the day! Some of them from the zoo and some off our back deck. All interesting! Deer, elk, turtles, otters and monkeys!
done2 Jul
A while back I wrote a post about importing and exporting with greater detail on the wordpress ideas forum. Here is a recap of what I wrote:
I always find myself poking around the WordPress Ideas forum to see what other users think of for suggestions of improving wordpress. The wordpress.org team is really good at looking through these ideas and making improvements that the users want, not just the designers. I haven’t ever posted there a new idea until today, but after searching I couldn’t find one similar.
I have searched around the ideas forum here, but I didn’t find anything. With the ever increasing size of blogs out there, the import/export functions may start running into size issues. I would like to suggest that we implement a way to break up the files either by a date range or through categories. Right now, large export files need to be manually broken up through a text editor. I have one blog that is about a 8 meg file that chokes most text editors
The date range would be my favorite. Just my 2 cents.
The import/export is the biggest pain for myself moving things around or just making backup copies for futures use. I hope something gets done. I realize a plugin will work in this situation, but since services like wordpress.com use the standard code, I would like to see it implemented in the core so other services are pretty standard with this approach.
I was pleased to see that Ron wrote a plugin that does exactly what I was referring to. The plugin is called Advanced Export/Import and really is a good plugin! I am not sure if the WP Dev Team would look at adding something like this for the core or leave it as a plugin, but Ron was nice enough to create a ticket as well 
1 Jun
I have been hosted on more hosting providers than I care to admit. I find myself extremely comfortable on shared, VPS and dedicated hosting. Despite that, I have decided to move all my personal blogs to wordpress.com. Why would I do this? This post is actually meant to be a little analysis of my thought process and highlight which ones really influenced this decision.
Blog Succession
This was actually one of the biggest topics in our decision making. I am a technical person and really love technology. It is nothing for me to pick up a server, install and maintain software and keep accounts in order. The rest of the family would not enjoy taking up this responsibility. Hosting our blogs on wordpress.com frees my family from having to worry about upgrades, hosting accounts and technical difficulties. Our blogs will always be around and secure.
Features and Upgrades
Our family accumulates blogs like they are going out of style. Even with “1 click” upgrades of plugins, themes and the core, it makes sense to have all my blogs on a WPMU installation. It is easy for each account to have access to all blogs in one location. Obviously based on the first discussion point, another WPMU install on any hosting really wasn’t an option. wordpress.com is the original WPMU install. It can be argued that the size and structure is hard to compete with. It is feature rich and backups are consistent. In terms of our blogging requirements, it is more than adequate to say the least. I also know the software well and contribute to the community when I can. wordpress.com is also run by committed and innovative people in the wordpress community!
Focus On Blogging
I am a busy person, constantly working and trying to spend as much time with my family as possible. Previously, I was working more in the technical field and found it easy to integrate server management into my time. The time requirements for running all our company and personal technical projects have finally warranted outsourcing. I just don’t have the time to spare. I would rather focus spare time on actually blogging and using the software at this point in my life. It will also free up more time to spend in support forums of buddypress, bbpress and wordpress.com.
My plan is to keep poking around our company installs and run trac versions of everything to keep testing and reporting bugs. Summing up, I believe that moving to wordpress.com again is a great decision for our blogging and our family. Hopefully someone out there might be able to relate to this post and aid in their own decision making process
23 May
I have been really busy over the past couple of months and it looks like the next month isn’t going to be any less relaxed, but a quick blog post is in order to tell you some of the things I have been up to:
Those are some of the larger things I have spent some free time with as well as many other things that you can find in my twitter profile, but other than that my time is consumed by my work. I am a workaholic and love it. I am once again slacking on my other interests including bbPress, WPMU and buddypress, but when I find time I will return.
8 May
This is the second part in my effort to help explain how you can use HyperDB to scale your large WordPress, WordPress MU or Buddypress sites. You can read the first part in the series here! First off, again:
In the first tutorial, I discussed the in and outs of getting your db-settings.php file configured to work with your site and used the example of getting sharing your WordPress users with another site by placing the users tables in their own database. In this part, I want to discuss using multiple database servers as well as replication.
Replication
This is not a tutorial on setting up replication. In fact, I have three (3) incredible articles that I am listing below that will help you set up replication:
25 Apr
Last night I was sitting around and caught a movie that had a short clip from “Where are you going?” by Dave Matthews Band. I loved and almost completely forgot that song! It was fun to hear it again, so I decided to record a quick version of it on my Macbook.
Higher Quality – wp.com player
done18 Apr
HyperDB is a replacement for the standard WPDB class which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.
HyperDB is a plugin written by matt, andy, ryan, & mdawaffe from Automattic. It is written primarily as a way to help larger sites manage growth as well as offers support for replication for backup and performance redundancy. While most users will never need something like HyperDB, this tutorial has a purpose of explaining its configuration.
We might as well get this out right now….the disclaimer!
Now that we have that out of the way, let us continue!
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