Wargaming.info Migration Update 26 April 2011

As previously posted (A Not So Small Migration) I have migrated Wargaming.info to WordPress, and as such have needed to reconfigure or redesign some facets – such as Image Galleries – so there are currently parts of the site missing data. Right now I have finally started to upload the image galleries for those posts that had large numbers of photos, having now got all the necessary components working to display the images properly. As of tonight I have completed everything back as far as late September 2010, older posts which had large galleries will still be missing their images (there’s about 16 of them in total), but I will gradually get 1 or 2 of these a day done I hope over the next 2 weeks or so to have the site back to 100%.

I have also started retagging many of the posts, again working in reverse chronological order, so the tag cloud will gradually become more complete and accurate over the next couple of weeks or so, but in the meantime only about 22% are done (the most recent ones).

A Not So Small Migration

WordPress LogoOver the last few days I have been migrating Wargaming.info from Joomla to WordPress – for a variety of reasons – but needless to say it has required a reasonable amount of effort (and has been the third such major migration I have done in about 4 years in my quest to find the ideal platform). The site is now back up and running in its new environment, however it does unfortunately mean any external links to specific pages on the site will mostly be broken (while in Joomla I could load multiple aliases for pages, the by maintaining external links to old page addresses, I have yet to figure out how easily that can be done in WordPress). Also it may or not break RSS subscriptions – so you may need to reselect RSS notifications if you had these previously. So first of all my apologies to anyone this affects!

I have not as yet completed all work, but I wanted to get the new design up and running as soon as possible, so:

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