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So, if by any chance you–the reader–are someone that has been paying attention
to what I’ve been writing–or posting, rather, as I’ve not necessarily been
writing a whole lot of anything–I think I can proudly announce that I am
finished tinkering with getting my various blogging efforts in order. Maybe.

A recap / explanation of what I’ve managed to do or accomplish is:

1.) I re-synchronized all of my self-hosted WordPress formatted posts to my
gemlog and to the WordPress.com location.

2.) I went through all of my old WP posts and tried to update all the broken
links.

3.) I started tinkering with my not-so-quick-and-easy gemlog posting script to
try and include a way of automatically uploading posts written in gemini to
Wordpress.

4.) I lcoated a WordPress plugin that someone created that automatically exports
fresh WordPress posts to gemini *.gmi files.

5.) I tinkered with my not-so-quick-and-easy script some more, to make sure that
I could have the WP plugin and my script use the same *.gmi files without
arguing about permission errors or attempting to create duplicate files.

6.) (or maybe 5.5) I figured out how to account for me being silly and
possibly including capitalized letters or spaces in my gmi filenames when
saving, and put in checks to rename things to lowercase and use hyphens in order
to be compatible with the WP plugin.

7.) I figured out how to use nano as something a little closer to a word
processor. YAY!

I would love to sit and write more about how I accomplished all of this, but
I’ve now given myself a slight headache in figuring all this stuff out. I’m just
happy to have something working, finally.

I hope to come back soon with a little more of an explanation of how I did all
this, probably with a reveal of my terrible and likely insecure bash script. I
would also like to come back and share which plugins, scripts, servers and
anything else I’m using, as I really want to give credit where credit is due. I
mean, really, I wouldn’t be getting any of this crap accomplished without the
use of countless other people’s work.

Well, I think that’s it for now. Until the next time.

Thanks for reading;

–J