Beau Lebens

Building the web, enjoying the wild.

Tag: website

  • New Year, New Theme

    To ring in 2019, I’m changing this blog’s theme to Twenty Nineteen, the new default WordPress theme, designed and primarily created by my excellent colleague, Allan Cole (check out his music, published as The Stuyvesants, they’re groovy). Apart from being pretty similar to, but a nice upgrade from the previous theme here, Twenty Nineteen also harnesses the full power of Gutenberg, the new WordPress Block Editor. I’m going to convert some posts to blocks so that I can use some of the better gallery options and whatnot, and will be using Gutenberg for everything going forward. It also reminds me…

  • Dented Reality on New Dedicated Virtual at Media Temple

    I’ve completed the migration of dentedreality.com.au (along with all my other domains, excluding this one) to a new dedicated virtual server with Media Temple. Mad props to them, they’ve been great in helping me handle some pieces of the process, which has gone relatively smoothly. Things I’m looking forward to on the new host include: Working with Plesk Onyx Trying out Let’s Encrypt 🔐 PHP 7 😍 Hopefully consolidating and simplifying some things This site (beau.blog) is now my main blogging/writing space, with Dented Reality being more of a full archive of my digital footsteps.