Year 2020! Time sure flew!
Other than the usual maintenance updates of WordPress and its plugins, the last "major" update was a second-page addition to Home(1) - Switched over to UBNT Ubiquiti UniFi Wireless APs
It gets increasingly difficult over the years to grow any inspiration to write tutorials and or photo blogs... because there're everywhere! I am grateful to the many tutorials online, but it does affect what I plan to share, why re-invent the wheel right?
jasonloongphotos.com
Most of the organic users that reach this site are due to the tutorials that I have written... and they are not even photography related ;)
I have also made a title change to the main welcome page "Tech Enthusiast, Photographer & Drummer"
It makes sense to just use my name, this way I won't need to deploy jasonloongtech and jasonloongdrums
jasonloongphotos.com's .htaccess 301 redirect code
A quick tutorial/snippet on how to redirect users to a new page
Credits to https://wpscholar.com/blog/redirect-old-domain-to-new-domain-htaccess/ (opens in a new tab)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP\_HOST} ^jasonloongphotos.com$ \[OR\]
RewriteCond %{HTTP\_HOST} ^www.jasonloongphotos.com$
RewriteRule (.\*)$ https://jasonloong.com/$1 \[R=301,L\]Commenting System and Forums
I've been using Disqus as this site's main commenting system, but have decided to go with another system entirely
There were Commento (opens in a new tab) and Jetpack's Comments (opens in a new tab) to choose from, I've decided to go with Discourse (opens in a new tab)
The unfortunate part of this move is that all the previous comments are not migrated over to the forums
forums.jasonloong.com (opens in a new tab)
OAuth Registration is enabled on the forum to help smooth out the registration... I know, another forum to register right? You still need to register for other Comment platforms anyway... apart from Commento that supports Guest/Anonymous posting
- GitHub
- Discord
There is still the forum logo to change which will get updated over the next few days
Till then...
