I will keep this short for now, as the transition took a whole bunch more hours than I had hoped. Best laid plans and all, but…

As you are probably noticing by now, we have FINALLY been able to upgrade our 20+ year old WordPress site to the latest version. I’ve been working on it for the better part of the last year or so, after being unable (for reasons I’ll explain when I’m less exhausted) to actually update it.

Long story short for tonight (this morning): Thanks to some indefatigable persistence from a few folks — a team of geniuses, really — I was able to redesign the site from the ground up, and they were able to use a bunch of magic tricks to make a 20-year old database work two decades later with the latest version of WordPress.

I don’t have enough energy — or pixels — tonight to express my gratitude to Greg, Naomi, Debs, and Chris for helping to make this all possible. Without their tireless efforts, this never would have happened.

I’ve still got a ToDo list as long as my arm. Lots of features, fixes, tweets and cupholders. But, the basic design is now in place. Until I decide to rebuild it again. It won’t take 20 years this time. In addition to my ToDo list, I suspect ya’ll will find lots of problems and have plenty of suggestions for improvement. I welcome it all!

The best news, perhaps, is that you can easily and quickly leave them in Comments! Which are now MUCH easier to use, and include nested comments and more. Check it out below and let me know how it all works.

Also: the entire site should now be mobile and tablet friendly as well! FINALLY!

Also, also: be sure and hit that SEARCH button up in the header, for insight into our 22 years of trouble-making and muckraking that were NEVER available on the old site, in our old format!

Also, also, also: CHECK OUT the new media players in BradCast and Green News Report items! They are REALLY cool. Also, built from the ground up!

More later, I am sure. But, for tonight…that’ll do it. Please let me know where I screwed up and/or where I didn’t! Have been really looking forward to this day for a very long time. And now…I may end up sleeping through much of it.

See ya soon! Thanks to all of you who have donated to help us get here and have supported our work for so long! And thanks for your years of patience! 🙂