Domain Change

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve changed the address of my blog from mikeschepker.com/blog to pieceofshep.com. I figured the title of the blog is piece of shep so I should use that domain name. I’ll be doing something with mikeschepker.com shortly, just need to find time to do it. All the old links from mikeschepker.com/blog/ are being redirected to the appropriate places here, so you shouldn’t run into any errors. If you do, let me know. Even the feed address should redirect properly. (I’ve changed Feedburner to reflect the domain change as well, so if you were subscribed to that address, everything should be fine).

One thing I noticed after I changed domains was that WordPress uses absolute image paths instead of relative. That sucks if you change domains, as all my images were still pointing to mikeschepker.com. Luckily, I found this plugin that allowed me to search the posts table in the database and replace the upload paths on all the posts with images to the new domain. Worked like a charm. It’s a must-have tool for anyone thinking of moving their WordPress installations to a new domain. Also, thanks to Chris Meller, Caius, and BigJibby for their crazy .htaccess ninja skills which allowed me to redirect all the posts on the old domain to the new perfectly. They rock.