I’ve just moved the blog onto the main root for this site so that www.sirspanky.com actually holds some information now. The transition seems to have gone smoothly following these instructions for moving a WP site on the same server. The transition seems to have gone smoothly, except that my login info was cached, and once I changed the URL within WordPress, it didn’t let me login anymore. This is a browser cache issue interfering with the credentials required by the form though, and using a different browser allows me to login and complete the transition. I suppose if you’re using Firefox you could always just delete the cookie, but using another browser that is already installed is much easier I think! At the same time I’ve also changed the permalink structure to be more friendly, so when a post is picked up in google it makes more sense. I’m now using a custom structure of “/%category%/%postname%/” so you can use www.sirspanky.com/funny/funny-post instead of www.sirspanky.com/2008/08/12/funny-post.

Basically I realised that I probably wasn’t even going to ‘complete’ a personal website, but I probably /was/ going to maintain the blog. Now Google will pick it up easier (yay), but at the same time it will break /all/ of the existing Google links (booo). On the upside that means that I won’t be getting so many hits to /my/ site for Hayden Panetiere (kinda yay), on the downside though I won’t be getting so many hits to my site (boo).