Extreme Makeover - HighCallingBlogs.com Edition
July 17, 2008
We will be taking the main HighCallingBlogs.com blog down for a bit starting this afternoon as we perform our own Extreme Makeover to the home site. If you visit HighCallingBlogs.com during this time you will notice a Maintenance Mode notice.
You will not be able to access our blog during this transition.
We expect that the new site will be in place and ready to be unveiled during the day tomorrow.
Your Blogs Unaffected
If you’re blog is hosted on HighCallingBlogs.com your blog will not be affected by this . You will still be able to access your blog normally throughout this transition.
Our team has been working hard to get ready for the new site. The changes go much deeper than simple cosmetic changes. And we have even more exciting things planed for the site after these current improvements are in place.
Stay tuned to this space!
Hold Onto Your Seats, This Could Get Bumpy
July 3, 2008
Ladies and Gentlemen, the captain has turned on the fasten seat belts sign. Please buckle up and hold onto your seats. This could get a little bumpy.
We’re going to start doing some major overhauling to HighCallingBlogs.com over the holiday weekend.
During the first phase of the upgrade we will bring the back end WordPress MU (mulit-user) installation up to the current version - kicking and screaming if we have to. We wanted to bring this to your attention so that you understand what is going on. Keep in mind that these changes will only directly affect those of you blogging on a blog hosted here on the HighCallingBlog.com.
Is This You?
To know if these changes apply to you, go to your blog and look in the address bar at the top of your web browser and see what URL is showing there. If you see something along the lines of
http://www.highcallingblogs.com/YourBlogName /
then you may be affected. Please keep reading.
If the URL of your blog doesn’t have www.highcallingblogs.com in it then you can stop reading because these changes won’t affect your blog at all. Take a break. Go to the beach. Maybe read some entertaining in flight announcements . Enjoy your holiday weekend!
For the Rest of You…
For those of you that have blogs hosted here at HighCallingBlogs.com, please bear with us. It is possible you may notice some quirky things going on during the upgrade. Some of these things may include
- Strange error messages appearing on your blog
- Your blog may log you out and ask you to log back in again
- Your chosen theme may rest to the default theme
- There may be (we hope short) periods when you cannot access your blog
A Perfect Landing
Come Monday you will find your blog will have a shiny new Dashboard as we bring the system up to date with the most recent version. This means that the HighCallingBlogs.com WordPress MU installation will have the same type of user Dashboard as the current single user version 2.5.1.
You can check out this overview of the new dashboard from the official WordPress blog itself, if you like, to get a heads up on what differences to expect. You also might want to read through Matt Mullenweg’s post describing some of the major dashboard changes .
Matt is the guy who originally developed WordPress and is the person who decided to make it open source and freely available to all of us to use. He knows what he’s talking about.
In the remote possibility of a loss of cabin pressure…
If you run into some major problems with your blog come Monday, please don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll look into it right away.
Chris Cree: Chris [at] HighCallingBlogs [dot] com
(But change out the ‘[at]‘ with ‘@’ ; the ‘[dot]‘ with ‘.’ ; Oh, and get rid of the spaces)
