Rough Groove

simbahan.net

I’ve always been fascinated with the colonial period and heritage churches of the country and even before doing the Facades book project for San Agustin Museum, which, by the way, will be launched this 30 August during the International Book Fair, I have already traveled and started documentation work on the existing old churches. Alarmed by the current condition, seeming neglect and lack of sense of history by most people wherein such structures are being demolished, renovated to the point of losing its charm and identity, and thus our heritage, I’ve been planning of making a site dedicated on Philippine heritage churches and other related structures like colonial era cemeteries, forts, watchtowers and convents.

Simbahan is this site wherein I will be featuring these structures in order for people to know the rich built patrimony that we have but sadly, slowly losing. There is a need to know what we have and what we have lost so that we will know what will be preserved and/or restored. Such lofty ambitions but I think with this attempt, I can make a difference. As of now, it’s more of a blog but I will add more information into it and come up with a content managment system (CMS)-type of site using Wordpress. Like salagubang.net, for the meantime, posts are once a week.

salagubang.net overhaul

Salagubang.net is my first attempt at building a website and it was the reason why I bought a digital camera (Canon Powershot G5) in the first place. Now, I’m doing a major makeover. First, I added a blog to it so that I can post additional information about my beetles and Philippine Coleoptera in general that is so lacking in the gallery site. The blog is the perfect vehicle for this kind of info since it has permalinks, ping, rss feed and comments. Second, I am migrating the old pages entirely to Wordpress. I admit that its a bit daunting since it involves around hundreds of pages but I’m already starting it with a local install. Because of this makeover, I’m doing away with some of the parts like the feature, exchange and what’s new.

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Blogging changes

For quite sometime now, I’ve been mulling of doing various blogs with specific focus. Rough Groove (this blog) has been around for over 2 and a half years now but really, as a personal blog, the topics are quite varied, hodgepodge or whatever catches my fancy: movies, beetles, heritage, photography, food, travel, etc.

Just a few months after I started with this blog, I decided that I should have another dedicated solely as a photoblog. Thus, Binary Silver was born with the sole objective of showing photos on a daily basis. At first, I used Wordpress but later exported it to Pixelpost. After almost 800 photos later, I finally decided to make changes and thus Binary Silver was switched back to Wordpress considering that, with the current version, it is now more robust and addresses my needs. It is my plan to make it more than just a photoblog and posts relating to photography should go in there, not to this blog anymore. It now has its own domain name: www.binarysilver.com

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Categories and tags

I just finished with December 06 upto this month tagging and categorizing the posts. Still a long way to go and still about 1,700+ posts to edit.

Exasperating predicament, 3

Finally, after much desperation of making this blog work, I decided to just make a fresh install of the blog and imported three sql tables from the original sql database:

• wp-posts
• wp-comments
• wp-categories

I tried importing the wp-links table but it just got me errors that’s why I didn’t add it. All was okay until I saw that the posts didn’t have categories in it which means that even if I have imported the wp-categories table, these were all empty!

I guess, I have so much things to do to have this work back to where it was before the transfer. Now, after configuring the options and settings, I have to add in plugins, go over themes and customize these, individually tag and categorize posts, all 1,700+!

But at least, I have addressed the problem.