Friday, May 18, 2012

It Has Come Time For Me To Bid Farewell To Bloggers Market

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Farewell To Arms

It Has Come Time For Me To bid Farewell To Bloggers Market. Yeah, there’s a catch of course …. almost like an up-sell of sorts. I’m not really going anywhere, I just love the drama!

New Address

Now for you skimmers out there, here is my new address: Jeffrey-Morgan.com

New Beginnings

As everyone pretty much knows by now, I’ve been planning this for months. And now the time has come for me to introduce you to the new ME. I told you I loved the drama.

The new ME has several components, and I’d just love to provide you with the details. However, as I am now re-writing this post for the second time, I’ve come to realize that the first post was a real mess after I had finished. I’m afraid that I have a real gift for confusing everyone. So I’m going to leave you with the new address of Jeffrey-Morgan.com which is a portfolio of my work really, and to leave you with the news that Bloggers Market will continue as my marketing arm for my products and services for Bloggers.

Goodbye Everyone

Over the past three years it has been a pleasure to know you all. There are too many to list here and the problem of course with that list is that you always leave someone important out ….. not meaning to.

I do look forward to seeing you all next year over at Jeffrey-Morgan.com and thank you for your ongoing support. God Bless You All!

Have a Happy New Year Everyone!   :)

 

JeffreyMorgan.me

 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas Everyone! What a year. This is to be my last Christmas message to you all here at Bloggrs Market. Next year I’m afraid all you will find here at Bloggers Market is a store front of sorts at Christmas time.

I am looking forward to seeing all of you over at Jeffrey-Morgan.com, so don’t be a stranger.

Here’s hoping that you had a prosperous year and that you are ready to indulge a bit with family and friends. Time to let everything go that was the past year and prepair for the new one. Time to unwind.

So enjoy the family, food, and wrapping paper and all that is within and I’ll see you next year.

God Bless and Merry Christmas Everyone!

JeffreyMorgan.me

“Ruh-roh, Raggy”

Scobby Doo

I started off back in the middle of December with the intention of re-building Bloggers Market with a new theme. I knew what I wanted, but couldn’t come close to finding anything out there in “Theme World”. I really figured that I was going to have to build the theme that I wanted and that was going to take time; time I really did not have in light of my other troubles with my Blogs.

I decided that for the next year I would just go with the new “Church” child theme, built on the “Genesis” theme framework. This probably spelled trouble or at least challenge for me as Bloggers Market is a tech heavy site. I’ve taken liberties with the site and experimented with different technologies which I really should have tested over at “Bloggers Market.net” which is why I built the site in the first place; as a testbed or what is commonly referred to as a “sandbox”. Unfortunately I had ridden the site until it broke and then rode off into the sunset. I actually have the site repaired now, but not in time to help me here.

Over the holidays I have put the new theme through the paces as you probably know by now, and have had challenges, but nothing to get into a twist over. Everything seemed to be predictable. After the big build I took a couple of days off and then decided before I do any new E-Book offerings or projects, that I would take the shot at upgrading here at Bloggers Market.com.

Everything went pretty smoothly, I was able to dump a lot of unproductive software, technology and plugins. Out went all the old comments from those that just came by looking for link juice and all the irrelevant posts that I have written that have had little value to my readers. Really just odds and ends for my own reference to some sort of WordPress issue that I was dealing with at the time.

By the time I was ready for the transfer, I backed-up everything and imported the database ………. in pieces, as I had built a respectable 100 Megs of Information. I took a shot at “wp_posts” and Ruh-roh ……. DATABASE BREAK! The import of the posts torched my “pages” and “categories” that I had set-up ……… even without the “terms” tables!!! Whateverrrrr ! Wages of Weirdness !

Whenever I run into un-predictable behavior with WordPress or any software or programing, I lose the thrill to experiment. What this means is that I will have to re-build Bloggers Market.com post by post; comment by comment ! I’m really not in the mood to wing it.

Oh well ……… see you this Summer !   :roll: