And Once More.

One of the things scheduled for the summer break (for the days I was not on vacation, or relaxing) was taking care of the website migration to the next major version of Joomla. Ah, website stuff again! Just the thing for late summer, right?

Of course I didn't manage to completely finish the whole shebang, but the major problems have been found, identified, and taken care of. Fortunately there were not too many of them, nor were they very hard to fix; for the most part, it's semi-brainless work to re-install newer versions of the many add-ons and extensions that accumulate over time. (And that even though I try hard to keep things as slim and streamlined as possible...) 

Now I "only" need to fix the smaller things that get jumbled during transition. That's mostly shop layout tweakings so everything is properly legible and all the legal shenanigans are covered. All that gets done on a test site, which is a clone of the live site, and I jot down the single steps to take in a list. Once everything is done and fixed and wrapped up, the live site will go offline for the transition (because it would be irksome if somebody ordered a stack of things just then), and get cloned again, and then I will go through that lovely list step by step to pull the old version over into Joomla 4.

The current website has also suffered a few little mishaps during the last update, which I (rather stupidly) did just before we went off on holidays. Most of the time, the updates go smoothly and not much is changing, but sometimes, stuff gets jumbled, or mis-aligned, or something gets lost in transition, or a link disappears - small things like that. Of course some of this happened during the last update... which I will hopefully catch all during the works on the site in the next few days. If things go well, end of next week might be realistic for the actual transfer...