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Stop Moving Links - Info Is Free
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| 7/21/2015
| CharlesOconnell
Posted on 07/21/2015 2:34:04 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
I was principal web designer at a medium-large municipality for 4 years, about 40% of my job consisted in tracking down bad links, now with WordPress we relegate that data-toilet-cleaning to back-end databases which seamlessly and effortlessly handle that task UNLESS SOME UNTHINKING BUSIBODY IS SAVING THE WORLD BY MOVING LINKS. Guess what: They're Free. If you want to re-organize, start your new stuff in a different folder. PLEASE, PLEASE, LEAVE OLD STUFF WHERE IT IS.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hyperlinks; internet; links
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To: CharlesOConnell
Well, this is “activism” of a sort. While we’re at it will somebody tell the neighborhood kids to stay the hell off my lawn? I’m getting tired of shaking my fist. :0)
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posted on
07/21/2015 2:37:06 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: CharlesOConnell
I didn’t move any. I wasn’t even logged in.
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posted on
07/21/2015 2:37:34 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Henry Bowman where are you?)
To: CharlesOConnell
How to Change a link shortcut/alias in WordPress: Change the Title, that’s okay, click the Edit button to the right of PermaLink and to the left of the View Post and Get ShortLink buttons. Delete whatever is in the Edit dialog, click OK. Whammo! Instantly, the backend database has created a new alias to your article (which is actually a numeric entry), but THE OLD LINK STILL WORKS. Join the 21st century.
To: ClearCase_guy; Gaffer; Slings and Arrows; Salamander
There's trouble at the mill.
One of the crossbeams gone out of skew on tredle.
(What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is this guy talking about?)
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posted on
07/21/2015 2:50:14 AM PDT
by
shibumi
("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
To: CharlesOConnell
I haven't a clue what you're raving about!
Is this series?
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posted on
07/21/2015 2:54:47 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: CharlesOConnell
Ok. I will stop.
And what town do you work for that can afford to pay you to do this 40% of the time?
To: CharlesOConnell
Quit moving links, and get off my lawn!
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:04:16 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I haven't a clue what you're raving about! Is this series?
Vary, vary series, my FRiend
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:06:05 AM PDT
by
BlueDragon
("Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?")
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Look Everybody! It's a Moving Lynx!
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:09:25 AM PDT
by
shibumi
("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:14:34 AM PDT
by
shibumi
("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
To: shibumi
Stop moving links?
How's a girl supposed to get ahead then?
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:25:45 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: shibumi
HAHAHA!
Last time I saw a moving lynx was at the winter Olympics at Whistler.
Well played darling! Well played.
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posted on
07/21/2015 3:29:33 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
To: CharlesOConnell
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:16:01 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: CharlesOConnell
I was principal web designer "was"? soooo.....got fed up with moving links and left?
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:22:19 AM PDT
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: CharlesOConnell
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:33:28 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: CharlesOConnell
Broken links, missing links, and dead links. They’re a pain but worst of all are rewritten articles with contextual and narrative shifts — largely the result of correcting grammar/spelling errors, but too many are edited when somebody “misspoke”.
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posted on
07/21/2015 4:42:43 AM PDT
by
Fhios
(I hope Trump can keep us entertained for the next 6 months.)
To: CharlesOConnell
To: CharlesOConnell
PLEASE, PLEASE, LEAVE OLD STUFF WHERE IT IS.
You haven't been in my garage have you?
To: CharlesOConnell
“Info Is Free”
If you think info is expensive now, wait until its free.
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