Proving the maxim that ‘fools rush in’ I haz decided to switch my website over to WordPress, much of which I have accomplished. I finally fixed Google Photo and Sync to work again and backup my main display photo directory to my Google account. I set up a reidirector to move people who came to the old site homepage — thanks to both of you — to the blog. I added top menus and moved some of the old pages over to the blog site, with most of them working. I added the Google Photos plugin to pull pictures from my Google Photos account, and after a modicum of headbanging, got it to work. This has meant I have to add my Google Photos to albums, and remove all the, err, artistic pictures. So far, I’m almost done with 2002. (I have discovered there are much worse technical writers out there than I am.) Many of the, err, older pictures seem to have forgotten parts of themselves and don’t remember which way is up. The Google Photo editing tools also seem a bit weak, shall we say. They also don’t seem to permit bulk editing, which is nice when you’re working on a few thousand pictures. After having my desktop bogged down for a couple of days, Google Photo tells me it’s synced everything it can except for a long list of things it could not sync for one of several reasons. I currently have the new plugin interface above the old links, which works most of the time.

I should look for a better photo plugin, but I should also look for a fullscreen WordPress layout. And a few other things.