If you noticed the site down today it was due to a major upgrade I was performing. I upgraded to the new version of Wordpress, Ella 2.1. It was a pretty major task since I extensively hacked and gutted my original Wordpress installation and theme. I also reconfigured and upgraded my plugins. To help me setup a test environment I loaded XAMPP onto my local computer and began migration process documentation (this is a complicated way of saying I was figuring out the best way to do the migration without messing everything up). If anyone is about to undertake this process, or any major software upgrade for that matter, I can’t stress how important it is to setup test environments. I saved myself a ton of headaches and problems by ironing out the bugs on my local machine before I went into production.
Among some other small styling differences you may notice, the biggest changes are the removal of the ‘Where to eat in San Diego’ and ‘What to do in San Diego’ pages. I just wasn’t all that inspired to maintain those anymore. However, I also added some new features including a sitemap page for easier navigation, some ‘On this day’ links which display events that happened on the current date, and a YouTube page (under construction).
So I hope you enjoy the site. I still have a lot to do as far as nailing down the small styling details so please pardon the dust!
