I am taking a code break and doing a brain dump… taking a break from me having dinners with HTML.<\/p>\n
The most complex website I have yet to completely migrate \/ rebuild is CLG, the main website and separate WP fresh core installation that I’ve done many years ago, which I would “selectively” update (I never do auto-updates because something ALWAYS conflicts, between WP Core, WP plugins, and WP themes).\u00a0 So I know when my old webhost did the unilateral decision to update, it destroyed a lot.\u00a0 Example …<\/p>\n
– Each “bible story” has a separate “audio file, bible story as well, at the bottom of the webpage.\u00a0 And then a link to the “sitemap” of sorts, of the specific Book.<\/p>\n
– well, when exporting \/ importing, there are “codes systematically changed” from quotation marks, which renders, EACH audio file at the hundreds of pages, BROKEN.<\/p>\n
– since my last post, I was troubleshooting these types of issues, so with that one, there was a function script I ran to systematically fix it (and kept the codes there because I will reuse these snippets of code)<\/p>\n
– also, for the “playlists” for the Gospels, the plugin developers for that has no way of migrating the list (without paying for some service, so they can work on it – well, it took me years to finish that so, I prayed, researched, and thought well, “what if I just built something that would not require another WP plugin?”<\/p>\n
– So I did.\u00a0 I finished it, I think it’s done, so I will just provide a link to that, on those pages where those playlists used to be.<\/p>\n
– In my opinion, the one I ended up developing is better, so I can just take a screenshot of what it used to look like, before I change the Domain Name Servers to the website’s new home.<\/p>\n
– I also converted the old Forum (which actually got wrecked and forum theme overwritten, I was glad I shared my codes with the forum developers’ website forum because there were shortcuts I learned along the way and I had very reusable code snippets.\u00a0 The Forum also, has no easy way to migrate, except for having to pay people to do it.\u00a0 If it took me YEARS to build all that, I don’t want to have to pay people for years to migrate stuff – also, since I was also using old backup files and screenshots of how these “websites used to look”, it would just be better to build something new, with my technical lessons learned applied to building the old design.<\/p>\n
– I was able to use some of the functionalities in CW CMS, and also CW Simple Site (CW-SS), to build my latest software.\u00a0 The “Audio Gospel”.\u00a0 So instead of having to load all those in the old webpages, I will just drop a simple “link” to the software, (looks like an app actually – I already tested it on mobile devices).\u00a0 that has a separate drop down menu (like CLG).<\/p>\n
– I also worked on different back end things like 404 pages and htaccess and such.<\/p>\n
– The OC website was what I used as a sandbox, and have also made sure I had backups of versions.<\/p>\n
– The funny weird thing I “noticed” was when I republished the old forum posts, the URL naming convention had \/forum\/Topic_title.\u00a0 So when I was archiving those important posts, I noticed the URL got shortened.\u00a0 So imagine, if the post was about “anxiety”, and then the subfolder of the site is \/share\/, I learned not to use “verbs” as subfolders.\u00a0 LOL!<\/p>\n
So as far as the other Solution Software I ended up building because of the Technical Tornado that hit all of the websites that I was an Admin of from the oldwebhost, it was blessings in disguise.\u00a0 I ended up software engineering and full stack developing the following, and also writing new Style Code snippets along the way:<\/p>\n
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I’ll just put the links to these pages below and will add and update each page and publish them later).\u00a0 Below is the outline of the major pages (I’ll nuke the others but this is just to “take pictures” of how God helped me manually design all these as I prayed for wisdom on how to it then, and how I will rebuild it better now, through God’s help.\u00a0 (screenshots for posterity \ud83d\ude42 The links below will open in another window. ):<\/p>\n
1) 2018 – Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n 2) 2018 – Bible Page<\/a><\/p>\n 3) 2018 – Matthew Page<\/a> (I’m just taking screenshots of Matthew, it’s the same design for the other Gospels and Books)<\/p>\n 4) 2018 – Matthew KJV Audio Page<\/a> (I developed my own software, using another software I developed called “CW Simple Site”, I built the Audio Playlist Software that is not dependent on a WP Plugin – because the playlist could NOT be migrated or exported from the oldwebhost, that was what depressed me at first, because it was like I put in all that time and effort creating it, and it was like I couldn’t easily extract it or back it up, or export it.\u00a0 Made me angry at first, and then I thought, like the usual motivation – How can I build one like this, that can be life “future-proofed” – that if the “under the bus” happens, or when I graduate from life happens, how can I pass this on to the NEXT Christ Follower full stack web developer?)<\/p>\n 5) 2018 – Tech Forum Pages<\/a> (the screenshots on these pages are DIFFERENT, the oldwebhost wiped out my original forum design and customizations)<\/p>\n 5.1) 2018 – Group Chat Page View<\/a> I designed this so it automatically “purges” deletes chat sessions every hour on the hour. No chat sessions are stored in ANY database. (That’s why I take screenshots of tech sessions or test sessions or straight out copy paste some sessions, because it is useful for “to do checklist” creation).<\/p>\n