Blog

The blog hasn't had a facelift in a long time.

setup

Moved wp is so broken. What is the overall theory of directories, permalinks, rewrite rules and front page displays?

when I changed servers I decided to put my old wp in its own directory. I followed http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory, read about http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks as well as http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page. Some how I have gotten things in a terrible convoluted state. I am in an infinite loop of change in .htaccess, index.php, permalinks and static pages with something always left broken. I need to know the concept instead of following 'copy don't move this' , 'update your permalinks that'.

It might be a problem that I named the subdirectory 'blog'.

The state right now is: I can get to wp-admin (whew). The site loads but not with the static page but with the blogposts. It shows the blogposts but if I click on a particular blog post it 404's. Tags and categories 404 too. The state of the settings is:
in root:

index.php is

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('.blog/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

.htaccess is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?sitebuilt.net$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog [L]
# END WordPress
</IfModule>

in /blog:

index.php is:

<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>

.htaccess is

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

settings->permalinks is /%postname%/

pages->static_homepage is called 'home', the permalink is http://www/sitebuilt.net and it won't let me change it.

pages->place-holder_for_posts is called 'blogposts' and its permalink is http://www/sitebuilt.net/blogposts

With this setup permalinks are right off the hostname and it can't find them. I've changes stuff so permalinks say http://www.sitebuilt.net/blog/mypost and it still can't find them. Where are they? What's the theory of operation?

topics

cool companies

cool ideas

cool technology

occupy

drafts

front page

more like an about me page

Sitebuilt.net is a portal to Tim McKenna's <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/wiki">w</a>eb sites and other stuff. Sitebuilt (Systems Inc.) was the name of the <a title="house building" href="http://sitebuilt.net/sitebuilt-houses" target="_self">house building</a> company I ran for thirty years.

<a href="http://sitebuilt.net/noah">Noah</a> is taking a picture of the rest of the <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/family" target="_self">family</a> as we climb to meet him on a hill near Bamenda in <a href="http://sitebuilt.net/cameroon">Cameroon</a>. Peri is in the center, I'm on the right, Toby is behind Ari. I was on a Christmas break from my <a href="http://www.sitebuilt.net/wiki/Resume">job</a> as a <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4/On_teaching">teacher</a> at <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4">PATH</a>.

For six years I taught <a href="http://www.pathboston.com/hum4">Humanities</a> mainly, sometimes math. Before that I was a PhD Candidate at BU in brain science. The courses were great but I left ABD (all but dissertation). I got listed on one <a href="http://profusion.bu.edu/techlab/modules/references/view_article.php?id=23">paper</a>.

topics

There are better ways to educate our kids.

We have to re-claim our democracy and create a healthy middle class.

What is cool about capitalism.

Tech and creating the future.

todo

Need a cool splash and connect to more static content.