hyperlogos

Guess who's back, back again? I've been fiddling and fettling and I'm still not quite happy with my site, but here it is again for your consumption, hungry internet. Search still isn't working very well at all (I am having a hard time finding content I know is on the site with it, which I can easily locate with content administration) but otherwise things seem to be okay. You can now access The Hyperlogos with or without encryption, at the domain name or at www etc. I've been writing the odd article while it's been behind locked firewalls, mostly as an aid to my memory.

...as soon as I can get hosting... because my host is still stuck on PHP 7.4. This means that I'm still stuck with D7. But this blog is about converting my site from D7 to D9. I was able to preserve everything, it seems, down to text formats — but all of them were refusing to display because they had references to missing filters, so it made it look like none of my content was present.

When we left our story last time, things were in decent shape. But then I noticed that some of my img_assist tags weren't displaying, and had to meddle with the custom img_assist filter some more. I made some progress, and I feel I might as well share.

After some deliberation I decided that it was finally time to move to Drupal 7. Most of the modules I use have been ported, and I figured I could hack my way around the rest. While there's substantially more hacking to be done, I have a fairly good handle on it so far. There were more complications than I expected, however.

Well, I went manually hacking and whacking my way through my comments and marked all the spam as such, so hopefully my pages will start to show up in google searches again. Also, a new header image; still haven't decided what to do about the font. For the meantime, it seems to be legible at a variety of sizes, so it will do. Now, off to delete more of the spam from the database...