Change
If you’re able to read this in your feed reader, hurray, I was able to make the change invisible, thanks to the wonders of htaccess. If not, drats, my skills suck, oh never mind. I’ve made some fundamental changes to where the blog is located now.
The new blog url is: http://ckunte.com and the site feeds are relocated to: http://ckunte.com/atom.
Ladies and gentlemen, please start your feed engines and update these bookmarks and addresses. God, I really suck at this. I should be really apologizing for doing this. I know it’s not polite to ask you to do something to read this blog. But, I had to change this one thing, because maintaining static pages was getting on my nerves. So pretty please!
For the new and improved, baked fresh location of this blog, I’m using Michael and Chris’s amazing K2. I’m so much obsessed with it that I hacked-up a quick and dirty look for the existing Plain Vanilla structure. A screenshot.
Like they say, change is the only permanent thing. I’m going to get hit on my pagerank, expecting the bots going frenzy on this site re-indexing in the next few days and expecting a jacked-up 404 list on the backend. Oh, what the hell.
Update: The hard-coded references to my blogposts were a pain, I even thought of downloading the hefty SQL dump from MySQL and do a manual search/replace and upload back. Then, I read this. Still, if you find something broken, gimme a holler. Thanks!
Update 2 [24 Sep]: I did a preg-replace on SQL that I mentioned before. Most references were in the posts and post comments. So, I ran these two replace commands in MySQL. First I selected the database table ckblog_posts (ckblog is my database name prefix), then went to SQL tab in PhpMysqladmin and entered the following (one command at a time) and pressed Go.
This command replaces all references of chetan.ckunte.com to ckunte.com in post_content in the WordPress database:
UPDATE ckblog_posts SET post_content=replace(post_content, 'chetan.ckunte.com', 'ckunte.com');
And this one replaces all references of chetan.ckunte.com to ckunte.com in comment_content in WordPress database:
UPDATE ckblog_comments SET comment_content=replace(comment_content, 'chetan.ckunte.com', 'ckunte.com');
Both queries worked fine for me and the references are working just fine now and pointing to the new address.
Looks real good. But are you abandoning Plain Vanilla then? Any specific reason for the change of theme and location?
Sep 23, 05 at 14:01No, I’m not abandoning Plain Vanilla. I’ll only improve it in time. Right now, I’m enjoying Michael and Chris’ hard work for a change =). Btw, I’ve noticed that doing a lot of coding leaves you speechless, which equates to less blog posts.
Sep 23, 05 at 14:19Wow… this is looking cool!
But, I like plain vanilla very much… and am anxiously waiting for release 2. So, please don’t say… that there’s no such release in the pipeline!
Sep 23, 05 at 16:21I still love plain vanilla - it is so flexible! I am still hopeless at codes and such so I hope you’ll still work on it!
Sep 23, 05 at 16:51Guys, don’t be alarmed. I am in fact working on Plain Vanilla. I’ve had an updated version running on my blog for sometime. I need some more testing before I can release it.
Sep 24, 05 at 01:28Be glad to test it anytime
Sep 24, 05 at 13:26Back to Plain Vanilla again? I don’t know if you’re doing something right now, but the sidebar portion is not being displayed at the homepage and only one post shows up
Sep 24, 05 at 13:32I was working on the theme, so you might have seen odd things around here =)
Sep 24, 05 at 16:11Don’t know whether it is plain vanilla or vanilla with chocolate sauce :), but the new design you have dressed your blog with, is amazing !! It rocks!
Sep 26, 05 at 08:28Sunrayz: Thanks!, with due credits to the hard working duo: Michael and Chris.
Sep 26, 05 at 10:56So when can we have a preview of PV2
or is it going to be Pure Vanilla this time?
Sep 26, 05 at 13:22