A fun day today
We woke up to some heavy wet snow today. At least we’re cozy in here. Also, I’m working on homeschooljournal.net, so that site will be done probably for a large chunk of the day. I’m going slow and taking my time so I do it right and don’t forget anything. 
At some point, I may have to restart the server that all my sites are on, so if you get to the blog at some point and things are wonky, likely I already know. I’m going to try and just do this work, and not surf my regular sites all at once, unless I’m waiting for something.
Step one is backups. Do you know how large a database gets when it has over 3,000 tables? Yeah, I’m gonna spend a lot of time backing things up.
Since most of my traffic is American, you should all be off eating turkey or watching footbal games or something, right?
To the rest of the world, happy Thursday! The week is almost done!
I may update later if i have the urge to chat.
Later: So I got everything backed up and set up a 16 database install. All the data will be spread over that. It makes it easier for me to maintain and gives everyone breathing room. I did hit a snag, but once I iron that out, I just have to test things in the backend and see if anything gets added to my list.
Then:
- go over bug lists, fix what I can right now
- double check support emails
- make sure support forum & sitewide tags work(yeah, I said PREMIUM, dude)
- tweaks to footer
- set up premium blogs
- set up global theme options and userthemes as premium features
- add new premium plugins and widgets
- change some standard themes to premium ones
- make list of users to move to premium status (most of ‘em. yeah really.)
- change new blog signup procedure deferred
- add feature list to main blog, get old pages off draft and back into menu
- troubleshoot support videos
- test and retest
- make server file edits
- verify everything works as it should, reopen site.
- Announce new features and explain premium status, which is not pay-based.
Then I hope that everything runs smoothly for a while and I can take a break from the site for a bit and work on something else. I have a couple-dozen projects waiting in the wings.
Much later: I hate typos. And I made a lot of ‘em.
3 Responses to “A fun day today”
Well, I, for one, really appreciate the care you take in running Homeschool Journal. Good luck with your work today and I like the note you have linked to the URL’s.
Premium? Ooooooooh! I am so excited! I don’t even know what premium means, but it sounds very shiny!
Wow! That is quite the list! Glad to see a few checked off. : ) Good luck and thank you so much for all your work. I can’t even imagine what all that entails.