Am I Blog Enough For You?

I woke up this morning and read an email from friend (Hi Kent!) stating that my blog had been hacked. Frankly, I deserved the haxoring because I was running an old (2.1.1) version of WordPress — one that had actually been cracked while on the download servers at that.

I exported by blog posts, cleaned out the bad links, deleted every wp file, deleted my database and every associated database user, deleted a bunch of other files that were laying around my htdocs directory, installed WP, imported my posts, and added a new theme.

Most everything made it over okay. I even moved the blog to a /blog directory and updated my .htaccess file to 301 all of the links. The old feed link doesn’t seem to work in Google Reader for some reason. The only real data lose occurred because I used the Exhibit plug in for a bunch of posts, so a lot of my image links were gone when I delet. I may need to redo my album of pictures I found on the ground after I retire.

I’m going to upload a few images to test that feature out and then check the feed links. (Note: WebKit crashed when trying to upload pictures the first time.)