Veggie Meal Plans has been undergoing maintenance over the last week and a half. Not a fun task on dial-up and extra nerve-wracking to boot, but we got through it. And while there are some minor technical issues and tweaks to take care of yet, the biggest updates have been completed. A short list of some of the changes...

New Commenting System
A new comment module has been installed. I'm hoping it will be easier for you to use than the previous system, as well as being easier and more efficient for me to deal with irritating spam. Each and every comment has been moved over to the new module and your web links have remained intact.

Nicer URLs
All of the URLs have changed and shortened up. Old URLs you may have saved or linked to will continue to work. For those of you subscribed to the site feed using Thunderbird, this change also resulted in a workaround for a confirmed Thunderbird bug that was causing articles to republish multiple times. We'll be keeping an eye on things to ensure everything is alright.

Core Update
While the core of the site isn't something you see, it is something that needed updating. It was the biggest task of all and much thanks goes to my husband for all of his help. I can now move onto to the food posts again!

Problems or Suggestions?
As always, please don't hesitate to send an email if you should experience any problems with the site or have any suggestions.

Thanks for your patience!

Comments (6)

Sophie said:

Well done Cassie (and husband). I'm grateful for the new commenting system - the old one was always telling me that I'd got it wrong (though it was nice enough to give me an easier alternative second time round!)

April 18, 2008 | website

CassieYoung said:

Thanks, Sophie, for breaking in the new system for us with the very first comment! I actually had the same problem in the old system myself. I appreciate your persistence to get your comments through despite the error messages you were getting - I know how annoying it could be! I have high hopes that this system will be quite easy to use and look forward to hearing how it works for others as well.

April 18, 2008 | website

kathryn said:

Well done Cassie, again for doing all this with dial-up. New comments are beautiful. I always thought it was my wonky eyesight or something, which stopped me from getting the comments code right. Reassuring to know it wasn't just me! I also like the shortened URLs - I noticed your old ones were huuuuuuuuuge. Good changes here though Cassie. Again, well done.

April 18, 2008 | website

CassieYoung said:

Kathryn, you make me laugh! Yeah, they were pretty huge, weren't they! The unique URLs on each post aren't exactly short now but definitely much shorter and even better is the fact they're soooo much cleaner. Thanks for the feedback and for hanging in there with the old commenting!

April 19, 2008 | website

d said:

thanks for all that hard work!

April 21, 2008 | website

CassieYoung said:

It has just come to my attention that this article, originally published April 18, 2008, is showing up as a new article in Google Reader. I don't know what's up with that and will be looking into it. I apologize for that!

May 13, 2008 | website

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