Wordpress and I are not getting along lately. Don’t get me wrong: I love Wordpress. To me, it’s the best blogging platform around. I’ve toyed with Tumblr, Posterous and Blogger. And I’ve never left Wordpress.
It started last week when some of my tables corrupted. I knew I had not backed up in a few days, maybe a week. I didn’t realize I had not done so in two months. (That’s what happens when your weekend schedule gets messed up over the holidays.)
At the first of the year, I did a lot of work on the site. Most of it was backend work, like redoing all of my categories and reassigning posts to them. There was a bit of visual work, too, but that didn’t take as long to replicate.
After getting my site back up and running, I made two changes:
Backups are on Thursdays. No more depending on weekend backups. Weekend schedules change a lot, and I need to make sure I don’t miss any of my manual backups. I do my entire system backups on Thursdays now.
After installing WP Database Backup, I noticed I was not getting my daily backups. I checked my settings, and everything was as it should be. When I had logged into my dashboard, I had noticed a new comment. Checking my email spam folder, I found no database backup and no notice of my new comment.
I tinkered for quite a while and discovered that I could get updates to my MobileMe address but not to my domain email address. Finally, I searched the Wordpress.org forums and found others have the same problem. They all share another similarity: No solution.
Thus, I installed Disqus for comments. So far, I really like the functionality. I’m not crazy about the aesthetics, which somewhat clash with the rather minimalist look of my site. But as Ian Hines said via Twitter:
Yeah, it doesn’t match my theme’s minimal style well, either. But for it’s functionality I’ll take the tradeoff.
Now I get my comment notifications just as I should, but Wordpress is still refusing to email me. As a work-around, I’ve got my WP Database Backups going to my MobileMe account.
Nonetheless, everything is “working”, even if it’s not all working right. Getting it right will be for another day.
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On Wordpress Backups and Disqus Comments
February 8, 2010
Wordpress and I are not getting along lately. Don’t get me wrong: I love Wordpress. To me, it’s the best blogging platform around. I’ve toyed with Tumblr, Posterous and Blogger. And I’ve never left Wordpress.
It started last week when some of my tables corrupted. I knew I had not backed up in a few days, maybe a week. I didn’t realize I had not done so in two months. (That’s what happens when your weekend schedule gets messed up over the holidays.)
At the first of the year, I did a lot of work on the site. Most of it was backend work, like redoing all of my categories and reassigning posts to them. There was a bit of visual work, too, but that didn’t take as long to replicate.
After getting my site back up and running, I made two changes:
After installing WP Database Backup, I noticed I was not getting my daily backups. I checked my settings, and everything was as it should be. When I had logged into my dashboard, I had noticed a new comment. Checking my email spam folder, I found no database backup and no notice of my new comment.
I tinkered for quite a while and discovered that I could get updates to my MobileMe address but not to my domain email address. Finally, I searched the Wordpress.org forums and found others have the same problem. They all share another similarity: No solution.
Thus, I installed Disqus for comments. So far, I really like the functionality. I’m not crazy about the aesthetics, which somewhat clash with the rather minimalist look of my site. But as Ian Hines said via Twitter:
Now I get my comment notifications just as I should, but Wordpress is still refusing to email me. As a work-around, I’ve got my WP Database Backups going to my MobileMe account.
Nonetheless, everything is “working”, even if it’s not all working right. Getting it right will be for another day.
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