WordPress on Flo's Thoughts

Creating a Staging Environment for Your WordPress Installation

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:56:10 +0200

For yesterday’s attempt to cleanup my database and fix the post id > 2³¹-1 issue I did not just want to fire the scripts and tests at my live site. So I quickly set up a WordPress staging environment. In my case, I created a special subdomain on my server, which makes things fairly easy. If you can do that as well: great, read on. If not: go check out Moving WordPress. They described how to move your site for a few more different scenarios.

Fixing the Post Id > 2³¹-1 Issue

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:47:03 +0200

Regarding my WordPress issues, which I actually did not want to tackle anymore, I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting post over on StackExchange, when I was looking for another issue. But as it turns out, this does fix the former issues as well. Nice.

The new issue did appear to me when I clicked through the Jetpack stats pages. Top Pages & Posts did only show one entry which looked like this:

The WordPress Issues I Had After Importing My Old Posts

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:03:34 +0200

Since I began using WordPress my website had this weird issue where it would show all my blog posts once you add the feed to an RSS reader but would never show new entries. Also, the official iOS app somehow mixed posts and pages and showed some of them multiple times and the newer ones (the ones I wrote after importing everything into WP) did only occasionally show up in there.

Moving

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:51:04 +0200

Those who follow me on Twitter might have noticed that I’m currently in the middle of a move from Nuremberg back to the country side. Which is awesome. :) But that’s not what I wanted to talk about.

A few years back, when I was still doing .NET stuff, I registered my name domain florian-heiber.de and a .NET webspace (with centron) to set up a BlogEngine.NET blog on there. A while later I registered my other domain flohei.de just to have a nice and short domain name for my personal email. The A-Record for that domain moved from one hip new service to the next. The last one was Tumblr.