So, overdue and much needed updates to the website. Fuckity-fuck-fuckaroo. All going smooth until I install a component....then - bang.
Broken. You saw it broken in the front end but the back-end was something else.
Oddly - humorously - the component was working fine. The only bloody thing.
So, fuck around, find out, fuck around, find out.
I really can't 'afford' to leave all the information behind, and the database doesn't allow upgrading.
There will probably be a few more fuckity-fuckaroo moments on the way to getting this thing up and running - an unenviable amount of loading components, reordering, fixing thing up.
There was, for a while, the very real peril that I'd lose some 1000+ pages of content, some 4,000+ articles comprising of millions of words and thousands of photos. Almost 20 years of scrap paper thrown into the basket. This, naturally, rather upset me. I wonder why.
Anyways, the past week this is where I've been, fucking around, finding out, 40+ hours for a "seamless" migration that - to be sure, is anything but seamless.
Now, this being the most current version of my website it will be a fresh start, but the old content - if for any reason you need or are bored and crawling - is all here: V4.rodboyle.com.
I'll try migrating it over - at some point, but there's a lot to be done before then, so it'll be the balance of content and form...