New Host + Gallery + WordPress = Second Job

Time was running out on my 1&1 hosting, so I took advantage of a good deal from dreamhost. Since I’m moving hosts, I figured I would do some infrastructure changes around here as well.

1) Migrate from Gallery 1 to Gallery 2.
 a) Build a new theme
 b) Integrate maps/location as a way to access photos (probably using gmap-module).
 c) Restructure albums. Currently 1 album per date – ie gallery/060225. Too hard to navigate. Perhaps break down access like so: gallery/2006/02/25/ (top level years, then months, then days). It will be a bit awkward for months where there is only one album, and this will break my perma-links. Maybe I should only create day albums when there are multiple entries per month, otherwise just shove it all in the month album.
 d) Change hotlink rewrite code for G2, maybe force watermark when hotlinked?

2) Move WordPress over to new host
 a) Integrate gallery 2 (probably with WPG2)
 b) Set up a site for Anna. Not sure of the best way to do that. Separate installs? Just different authors? Point sub domains to the author’s archives?
 c) Add location/map navigation, probably using something like Travelog. I would like to get it integrated with the gallery maps, but I’m not sure that’s possible at the moment.

Sounds a lot like work. Gonna have to start with baby steps. Things could get ugly while I transfer stuff over. Suggestions?

2 replies on “New Host + Gallery + WordPress = Second Job”

  1. Ha, just when you almost had me convinced to switch to your host, you move over to dreamhost. Now both you and your website are geographically close to me.

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