Site Upgrade
I didn’t mean to upgrade this site, but since I screwed up some files, and i didn’t have backup, I took this opportunity to shift this site from “self designed CMS + 3 wordpress blogs” to “wordpress multi user”. I expected wordpress MU to ease my life a lot, but thats not true. It only made it tough. wordpress MU is not a good substitute for what I had before. Its no doubt good if you want to create a blog for each student in your school, like navya did for IIT Kanpur (see http://blogs.iitk.ac.in/). Though I hope/think that in long run it will be helpful.
While upgrading, thing went smooth apart from one problem. When you install wordpress, by default it creates a blog, and its posts has URL /blog/blah blah. But /blog/ will give 404 error. Now, this meant I could import all my posts from old blog, and I don’t have to worry about indexing by different search engines. But feed url shifted from /blog/feed/ to /feed/. Now this was bad. So, I tried to change settings so that this defualt blog could work properly with /blog/ urls. But alas, it didn’t work out well. and I am pretty much sure that there is no way of doing so. So, I wrote some rewrite rule sin htaccess and now it works. (hopefully). This site was useful : http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds.
If you find any problem with the site, please let me know