Dumpster diving & retrieval of Wordpress content

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:28:00 -0500

Background

For reasons that are stupid, I’ve lost my hosted Wordpress website. The TLDR version is that the webhost keeps doing something. The PHP version keeps changing, the MySQL database corrupts, the Wordpress backend auto-updates either via a webhost script or within Wordpress itself and then corrupts.

Either way, enough is enough. I don’t actually use Wordpress for all of the bells and whistles. I don’t actually use it like a dynamic site, and I don’t need a relational database powering the backend. What I mostly use it as, is a static file store. In work projects, I’ve been using the Python Sphinx library for a long time to have project documentation being automatically built by the CI pipeline after a commit is merged into the develop branch.

[Geek-post] Why I choose open source

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:29:00 +0000

I’m currently using an awful lot of software and getting to the stage where I’m having to develop my own. For this reason I thought I’d keep a little track of what I’m using and why. I’m in the process of moving all of my computers across to Ubuntu for a number of reasons. Really the tipping point came one day when Windows 7 (the uncrashable) blue screened on me one too many times. Now I’m perfectly happy with my gaming machine to use Windows and crash occasionally. This is because by and large (despite Wine trying hard) you can really only game in Windows, and that’s largely due to it being the largest market. This combined with the fact that the machine barely ever has the sides on means that a crash or two is unavoidable. However, this my work PC, the PC that has its core programs, talks to the internet and that’s it.

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Dumpster diving & retrieval of Wordpress content

Background

[Geek-post] Why I choose open source