Tag: Site Update

As I have explained in the previous post Domain Change I decided to move on and let the domain romantika.name expire. Today, I found out a new WordPress blog has been erected using that domain, with technical topics as its focus.

Some even cross over with my old topics such as exporting blogger to WordPress and building a collapsible plugin. This gives the impression as if the site is owned by me especially since my old WordPress plugins are still pointing over to romantika.name as they are outdated in the plugin repository.

I need to tell everyone that romantika.name is no longer owned by me, and anything that is written there is certainly not mine. I am not responsible for anything that is published there.

Please be aware.

Since I haven’t had a lot of time to write for the last few years, I have decided to let the domain romantika.name to expire at the end of this month. From my experience with domains, someone will buy the domain and squat there with some ads. Especially a domain that has been around for 15 years!

   Domain Name: ROMANTIKA.NAME
   Created On: 2004-12-29T08:00:57Z
   Expires On: 2020-12-29T08:00:57Z
   Updated On: 2019-12-27T05:51:05Z

For now, I have enabled redirection so that all links to the old domain will redirect to this one.

Here is the nginx config to achieve this.

    server_name www.romantika.name romantika.name;
    rewrite ^\/v2(\/?.*) https://blog.adyromantika.com$1 last;
    rewrite ^(.*) https://blog.adyromantika.com$1 permanent;

As for WordPress, it’s pretty easy using WP-CLI:

wp db export backup.sql
wp search-replace 'https://www.romantika.name' 'https://blog.adyromantika.com'
wp search-replace 'https://romantika.name' 'https://blog.adyromantika.com'

I have also transferred all of the domains I own to Cloudflare and saved more than 50%.

Let’s hope 2021 will be a better year for all of us.