Now I just realized that the guids in the RSS feed pointed to my development server. I looked in the database table and saw that there were hard coded references to http://strindberg.loc. So with a little UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'strindberg.loc', 'www.poppa.se') I thought I had solved the problem. But then I realized some other guids in the RSS is generated on the fly, and they get f**ked up since the Wordpress address now is relative and thus some guids looks like http:///blog/some-url/. Is that good or what?

And try to figure out how to find out where those guids gets generated. My idea was to find where they are generated and there insert the HOST dynamically, but since there’s a zillion apply_filter(...) it’s virtually impossible to find where the shit gets generated (thanks to Netbeans it’s otherwise simple to follow the chain of execution. Just ctrl+click on a function call and the source of that function will be loaded.)

Ok, so now I have to put on my Sherlock hat and see if I can solve this. I find it hard to believe you shouldn’t be able to move a Wordpress site from one domain to another without having to work your ass off!

If anyone have a solution – it’s perfectly possible I’m missing out on something here – I’m happy to know!

It hit me I hadn’t done anything to my site for three years. After all I’m a web developer and some kind of standard must be met and kept!

The previous version of this site was built on my home cooked blog application. But that was written three years ago and you learn, and develop skills, a lot over three years, so I didn’t feel like reusing it and it was kind of limited regarding lots of stuff – like social networkning – that has emerged over the past few years.

Since I’m an open source advocat I decided to live as I learn and went for Wordpress. It was really simple to setup and the admin interface is rather uncluttered and easy to use. Although I’m not too fond of how the backbone of Wordpress is coded and structured it’s fairly easy to bolt on your own functionality.

Hopefully this new version of the site will make me write more than two posts a year, but I wouldn’t bet on it