Would love to get the site updated but with my diminishing mental capability and patience, I don’t think I can do the update properly. I previously hired a person to do the updates but he is no longer available to help me.
Considering how bad the site has become and the seemingly constant need for updates, I am wondering if I should even try to keep the station up. I used to go years with everything working fine, but now it seems there is an ongoing list of revisions.
I don’t really want to take over another website for maintenance updates – I have enough challenge keeping the current template scripts running with all the NWS changes that have happened over the years.
I know that ALITTLEweird1 on WXForum.net has done site maintenance for others – you might ask him on WXForum.net if he is still doing that.
Looking at your current site, you have a bunch of 3rd-party scripts also installed, and many of those developers are no-longer active nor support their prior work
(eastmasonville, tnetweather, etc). Your dashboard can be updated from my legacy-scripts page as I’ve assumed maintenance of the alternative dashboard from Scott of Burnsville/Websterweather.
I did check for updates from 12-Aug-2015 for Base-USA, WD-plugin sites and it’s not too bad. Many of the files can just be directly replaced on the site. Some will need copying settings from the old file to the new one, but the README file included in the .zip of updates categorizes each file’s handling.
The updates to
ajax-images/
alert-images/
alertlog/
forecast/
can just be pushed en mass to your site. The .php files (and ajaxWDwx.js) will need individual handling.
Do the script updates before you try PHP 8 or it will break worse.
The dashboard on the home page must be updated to 6.95h (along with the other 4 .php scripts in the alt-dashboard .zip) to work correctly.
