That's a good question. The answer is a little bit technical, but not insurmountable.

When I moved it to a new server, that was supposed to be (1) good, and (2) easy. Well, "supposed to be" isn't what it's supposed to be. The move was supposed to be for both technical and financial reasons. On the technical side, my old host was sort of stuck in 2010. The site uses the PHP scripting language, and it was running version 5.3 and there would be no forthcoming upgrades there. The new host is PHP version 8.1, which has a lot to offer. But the thing with PHP is that it keeps changing, which in general is good. But new version aren't always compatible with the old, and a lot of syntax and functions that existed in 5.3 just aren't there anymore. That means dozens or even hundreds of fixes in the pipe.

On top of that, the site was based on Wordpress. I've come to the conclusion that systems like Wordpress are great for moderately technically inclined people who want to put together a web site but who aren't really coders. I've been coding for like 60 years. The downside of Wordpress is that the internals are terribly complicated, and when it breaks, it can be really hard to fix. All those PHP changes broke it magnificently.

So I'm rewriting the code from scratch. I have the original database picked apart and normalized, but there is going to be a lot of coding ahead of me, and unlike Google, I don't have a staff of hundreds of developers working on it. I have to fit it in as time permits. So bear with me. You'll see more and more features appear as I get work done on it.That's a good question. The answer is a little bit technical, but not insurmountable.

When I moved it to a new server, that was supposed to be (1) good, and (2) easy. Well, "supposed to be" isn't what it's supposed to be. The move was supposed to be for both technical and financial reasons. On the technical side, my old host was sort of stuck in 2010. The site uses the PHP scripting language, and it was running version 5.3 and there would be no forthcoming upgrades there. The new host is PHP version 8.1, which has a lot to offer. But the thing with PHP is that it keeps changing, which in general is good. But new version aren't always compatible with the old, and a lot of syntax and functions that existed in 5.3 just aren't there anymore. That means dozens or even hundreds of fixes in the pipe.

On top of that, the site was based on Wordpress. I've come to the conclusion that systems like Wordpress are great for moderately technically inclined people who want to put together a web site but who aren't really coders. I've been coding for like 60 years. The downside of Wordpress is that the internals are terribly complicated, and when it breaks, it can be really hard to fix. All those PHP changes broke it magnificently.

So I'm rewriting the code from scratch. I have the original database picked apart and normalized, but there is going to be a lot of coding ahead of me, and unlike Google, I don't have a staff of hundreds of developers working on it. I have to fit it in as time permits. So bear with me. You'll see more and more features appear as I get work done on it.That's a good question. The answer is a little bit technical, but not insurmountable.

When I moved it to a new server, that was supposed to be (1) good, and (2) easy. Well, "supposed to be" isn't what it's supposed to be. The move was supposed to be for both technical and financial reasons. On the technical side, my old host was sort of stuck in 2010. The site uses the PHP scripting language, and it was running version 5.3 and there would be no forthcoming upgrades there. The new host is PHP version 8.1, which has a lot to offer. But the thing with PHP is that it keeps changing, which in general is good. But new version aren't always compatible with the old, and a lot of syntax and functions that existed in 5.3 just aren't there anymore. That means dozens or even hundreds of fixes in the pipe.

On top of that, the site was based on Wordpress. I've come to the conclusion that systems like Wordpress are great for moderately technically inclined people who want to put together a web site but who aren't really coders. I've been coding for like 60 years. The downside of Wordpress is that the internals are terribly complicated, and when it breaks, it can be really hard to fix. All those PHP changes broke it magnificently.

So I'm rewriting the code from scratch. I have the original database picked apart and normalized, but there is going to be a lot of coding ahead of me, and unlike Google, I don't have a staff of hundreds of developers working on it. I have to fit it in as time permits. So bear with me. You'll see more and more features appear as I get work done on it.