Don’t panic Mr Mainwaring!

After last week’s unscheduled disappearance when the worldwide PHP issues hit and my almost 24 year old underskirts proved too old to hold me up any more, we are now trying to make me a new dress. This has been something that has not managed to ever get to the top of the (very long) ‘To Do’ list so far, in an ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ and ‘there’s not time for everything’ type way.
In doing so we are rediscovering many things that I thought I didn’t know how to access. And that I have many more of the site templates saved than I thought I had. Saved in 2022. So, I must have started making a new dress way back then, when the builders were at Peak Build. Probably why I don’t remember, given that I seem to have auto-erased all memories from that time, presumably for self-preservation.
It also means that, if we get it wrong, the blog may disappear again, like it did last week. And this time it may not be able to reappear until we have the new site ready, which won’t be for a few days, or more probably next week, as we have lots of other things we need to attend to as well.
Our idea is to make a sub-folder in my innards, install WordPress into it (Mr BW has done this before), get it all set up and working and then change where the URL points. Whether or not it is possible to transfer all the old content remains to be seen. Over 7,000 posts and 42,000 comments, currently within hand-crafted (in 2003) code on Movable Type, is a big ask. Well, I think that is what Mr BW said. Don’t laugh if you understand these things and that’s not quite right.
I’ve finally managed to make the BW email addresses work again too, so if the comments box has disappeared and you notice anything weird, or have any useful ideas to contribute, the address in the sidebar does now actually work now. Probably. It works for me anyway.
And I’ve also (re-)discovered that BW Blue is actually #0066ff. Appropriate, I thought.
Wish us luck… and thank you for your forbearance.