Over the past six months, I’ve been immersed in a major technical overhaul of my family history website and blog – work that’s mostly happened behind the scenes but was essential to keeping everything running smoothly and securely. What began as a routine server upgrade turned into quite a technical adventure.
The first big step was moving my main site from a non-secure http address to a secure https one. While this was vital to improve online security it wasn’t without hiccups. The change meant some of my website’s scripts stopped playing nicely, so they had to be updated before everything worked as it should again.
While all this was going on, I hit a bigger snag – my old blogging software was so outdated it simply wouldn’t run anymore. I decided it was time for a fresh start and chose WordPress as the new platform. But there was another hurdle. My blog needed a newer version of the ‘engine’ that powers the site. Unfortunately, updating this engine in my existing web space would have broken some of the other scripts on my main site.
The solution was to give the blog its own dedicated space. I purchased a separate domain, and the blog now has a new home under the www.hibbittbarnes.uk address. This allows me to run the latest software for the blog without affecting the main website. The main site, www.hibbitt.org.uk, will continue to serve as the hub for all my other work, with updated links directing you to the new blog, a task I’m still working on to make navigation as smooth as possible.
With the new WordPress site set up, the next monumental task was moving all the old blog posts over. Unfortunately, there was no simple way to transfer them in bulk, so I had to do it all manually, one post at a time. While time-consuming, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It gave me the chance to fix broken links and update some of the posts with new information based on more recent discoveries
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Hi Annie, I am the Swedish song lyricist Alice Radomska, for the present working rather close to the very nice 24 years old London singer Tara Hibbitt (she was brought up in Newcastle with a mother, a brother, no father). Until the middle of October Tara lives by her Finnish granny in Helsinki, where we make our recordings. Yes, she indeed is very nice, but I happened to ask her about the brooch on her blouse, and she really snapped me short, saying it is the Hibbitt Family bagde, and according to her mother she has a right to wear it. One delicate matter, I’d say. Well, if it isn’t inconvenient to toy, please listen on YouTube to Tara Hibbitt Complicated Planet to see if she suits the Hibbitt family character. Thank for interesting reading.
Thank you for your message Alice. Very pretty song. I can’t comment on a specific Hibbitt character I’m afraid.