Back on Track

After a bit of a scare with Dreamhost’s control panel (it told me I had deleted my domain at one point!) and DNS propagation (at one point I couldn’t resolve my domain until I forced a manual refresh), I’m back on track with the “advanced” installation of Wordpress here for my corner of the intertubes. The good news is I cleaned up stale stuff in my hosting account, got rid of some old files, and got things up and running in a little under two hours. 

Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite as easy as I wished it had been. I started by backing up my blog using the XML export, so at the very least I wouldn’t lose my posts. I wasn’t sure if they database would be reclaimed by the “easy” uninstall - which it wasn’t - however upon finally getting WordPress re-installed in the “advanced” mode, it totally wiped my database and started from scratch anyway. So much for that thought! But importing the old posts was easy after I created the other, non-admin user who I prefer to post under (IMO posting as admin, much like running as root, is bad form).

I confirmed that things were accessible via SSH and installed the reCAPTCHA plugin. Now that normalcy has been restored, I’ll be tackling some of those previously mentioned todo’s at some point this week…