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Published on Friday, 09 December 2011 21:55

Written by Tim D. Lane

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Since my old server didn't support PHP 5, I took the leap today and began the migration to a new server.  I set up a clean copy of the latest and greatest version of Joomla! and started setting it up.  Of course, that means I have to set up everything from scratch again, but better now then sometime down the line when I have tons of content to migrate!

The first issue I discovered was that the new version of Joomla! does not come with a theme similar to the one I was using in the old version, so my first task was to find a theme that would work for me.  What you see is what I found.  I will probably tweak it; I'm not all that crazy about the faded red menu titles, for example.  Not a big deal, it is far easier to make a few tweaks than it is to design a theme template from scratch.

Of greater concern is the fact that the blogging component I found for the old version is not compatible with the new version.  So, for now I'm using the plain vanilla blogging capability of Joomla!  Tomorrow I will look for a decent blogging component for this version.  If I don't find one, who knows, maybe I'll try my hand at updating the one from the old version.

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