zerolight

I’ve decided to give my site a lick of paint, at least for a few weeks, by making use of my RocketTheme subscription and their latest theme, hivemind. To be honest, I still prefer my heavily modified version of their colormatic theme that’s skinned my blog for almost a year, but a change is as good as a post, or something like that.

My site has now moved over to MojoBlog – an enhanced itteration of JD-WordPress. MojoBlog runs off the latest version of WordPress, and is better featured that the original JD-WordPress – rss feeds, pings, trackbacks, now work apparently – I’m not beardy enough to know what trackbacks and rpc pings are. All my modules have been updated to work with mojo, and are available to download.

I’m hosting a mojoblog demo site after receiving early beta code. I’ve adapted most of my modules to work with mojo – I’ll upload them later this week to the downloads section. I’m assuming they won’t need to change again – as that portion of Kevin’s code is near complete.

edit: Modules and Mambot now available to download.

edit: No longer hosting the demo. Will wait for a final build then upgrade my site.

You may have noticed I’ve brightened things up a little bit on the website now with this heavily modified rockettheme, a combination of Mobius and Colormatic.

I just switched from my previous host when it became apparent that they didn’t know what they were doing. Shame as they were very cheap. Basically, thought they said they supported PHP, but it turned out only really PHP installed via cPanel which was owned by user “nobody”, the server. Anything I uploaded myself could not access the file as system my PHP scripts run under my user had no file permissions. Their solution was to change the file permissions on my site to 777… letting every hacker, their dog, and even the village idiot, have free access to my domain. Nice one. I canceled my account on the spot… good job I was on a monthly plan.

The transition to Lunar Pages was easy, it’s also clear that they are very professional, know what they are doing, and have a massive and loyal user base. Support forums are a nice touch, and it’s nice to have a free 0800 number in the UK for a USA based hosting firm.

From my end, moving my website and email over took minutes, unfortunately, getting my JD-WordPress/OpenWP component in Joomla to function (such that I could edit and create posts) on the new host wasn’t so easy and swallowed up a couple of hours – sorry Z. In the end I got it working by re-ftp’ing the component onto my site (so I assume some permissions got mangled first time around or something). Which tool minutes… go figure!