Archive for the 'site maintenance' Category

We’ve upgraded!

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

We’ve upgraded to wpmu 1.2.1. Been awhile since any upgrades, updates or changes have been made. Sorry about that. Between parenting and my day job I haven’t had much free time. That hopefully will be changing shortly.

No promises yet, but the big redesign is still in progress as well as a few new features and a contest with cool shwag to win (did someone say bestbuy gift cards and free netflix subscriptions? Tshirts?) more on that later.

For now, enjoy the fabulous upgraded blogs and let us know what you’d like to see added!

Server migration time!

Friday, January 19th, 2007

We’ll be moving the servers in the middle of next week. Yay to more space and a faster database server.

While we’re doing that we’ll also be doing some backend upgrades and bringing everything up to date a bit more. There may or not be a few surprises in there as well (10-15 new themes maybe??)

Some of you may have noticed that there are quite a few new widgets to choose from for your sidebar. We snuck those in yesterday and have a few more on the way as well. Like we said before Christmas a lot is happening in the new year.

Rolling Beta (aka Open for business)

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Alrighty after working for an extended 18 hour stretch I’m finished with the launch configuration (themes, plugins, widgets) and am now going to open the site up for open beta testing. There may still be a few sporadic issues (as I upgrade certain functions based on user input), but otherwise everything is good to go.

If you do find any issues you can go ahead and post a comment below and I’ll get right on it.

I’ve still got the tour and the faq to set up in order to make it as easy as possible to get started making your blogs really individualized as possible.

There’s also the matter of 5 or 10 new themes to add in this week.

Enjoy the site and don’t hesitate to give me feedback or ideas or even money ;)

The themes they are a changin’

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Out with the old in with the new.

  • All themes now support widgets (with a very large selection of widgets to choose from).
    (Widgets can be found under the presentation tab)
  • Google Ad sense is coming soon (earn money on your blog?! Bonus!)
  • Spam filtering is now in place for all blogs
  • Your dashboard will now feature a nice list of the newest posts around the entire dreamflicks site.

Still tons of work to do adding in more features and finalizing the front end of the site but keeping you the users happy is the most important thing right now!

Setting things up here

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

Welcome to Dreamflicks.com. There’s really not at all much here but this is the just the beginning of it all. I’ve set up the main scripts and themes that we’re offering right now as well as done some testing to make sure everything works right. Now it’s just a matter of waiting for Dreamhost to finish altering the dns and apache settings and this baby is ready to fly. Currently the signup form is disabled (unless you get an invite to join) until the bugs are worked out and a few more alterations are in place.

I’ve tested and installed a few of the plugins I run and/or designed over at http://cdcstudios.com and so far they all run spectacularly. I’ve got a few more to test yet but all in all major thanks and amazement over to the whole dev team that built wordpress mu.

I’m back to working on integrating all of this stuff and hoping that my virtual duct tape can hold it all together :D

Peace.