Buzzsonic.com

Well I struggled with the Word Press upgrade. Even following the helpful support links at Word Press itself and doing the usual Google search I had some scary moments, php errors, parts of the site vanishing etc. Ouch. I’d backed up the whole website archive to my desktop so I was able to restore the site and try again (thankfully!).

Anyway, I decided the safest way (but not the quickest way) was to install the latest version of Word Press side by side the old version in a different directory on my server and painstakingly move all the old posts over by hand. One thing that Word Press dosn’t seem to support as yet (at least I couldn’t find it) is migrating the content over from Word Press to Word Press, although there is support for moving from alternate blogging platforms over to Word Press (I hope you’re still following me here).

So thats the latest, a weekend of moving content. The old Buzzsonic was running on Word Press 1.5 using the Semiologic theme by Denis de Barnardy. The new Buzzsonic is running on Word Press 2.0.3 using the rather cool looking Durable theme by CSS whizz Andy Partling.

Word Press Resources

Word Press Codex (WordPress.org)
Word Press Theme Browser (AlexKing.org)
Word Press News (Wordlog.com)
Word Press Guides (Tamba2.org.uk)
Word Press Station (WPStation.com)
Word Press Theme Park (WebDesignBook.net)
Word Press Plug-ins Database (WP-Plugins.net)
How to Make a Word Press Theme (TheUndersigned.net)
Social Bookmark Link Creator (TwisterMC.com)

Forever changing….We seem to have been taking one too many ’sabbaticals’ from this blog over the last year, juggling too many projects is one excuse, another is that my ideas are continually shifting.
So, another bit of a slight change on the editorial front as we’re now focussing the blog on highlighting more personal technology like blogging, RSS, bookmarking, popdcasting, software and the like as opposed to the original focus, which was the digital music industry when we started as MusicBizNews24.com (a while ago now!). Call it convergence if you like. Not jumping on any bandwagon you understand, just trying to focus a little clearer.

The remainder of this week will be a bit of a site makeover to hopefully make things easier on the eye, an update to our Word Press (we’re still on 1.5 here as apposed to 2. whatever its at now) and shifting the old database over, oh, and the more search engine friendly URL feature that the latest Word Press has.

Anyway, proper new posts and more updates at the weekend. Keep your eye out.
Adrian