Site News

Welcome to the fresh new site! After years of relying on third-party software, I’ve now officially swapped standard WordPress and Coppermine for my own custom-built platforms. I built these entirely from scratch out of personal need, but kept fellow fansite creators and hobbyists in mind every step of the way.

First up is Lumora Press—a lightweight, self-hosted PHP blogging platform inspired by the elegance and simplicity of classic WordPress (think 2012–2015 era!). It’s all about writing, publishing, and customizing with classic themes, widgets, and plugins. No block editors, no page builders, no AI bloat—just simple, fast blogging. Since it’s an independent codebase built from scratch (not a fork), it runs super fast and stably on modern PHP and basic shared hosting.

On top of that classic WordPress goodness, I also added a few features to Lumora Press Core that I've been wishing WordPress had without needing a million plugins: virtual folders in the Media Manager (so you can finally organize hundreds of icons, wallpapers, and photos by subject with ease!), direct file importing from FTP and Downloads.

Then there’s Lumora Gallery, a dedicated media engine inspired by Coppermine Photo Gallery. It’s built to handle big visual collections, fan archives, and tons of photos without breaking a sweat.

Building both of these from the ground up gives me total freedom from modern web bloat and brings back the classic workflow that makes site-making fun again ❤️

I’ve also put together a few other handy scripts—feel free to check them out over at https://coding.unloved-heart.net!

The server problems the other day was identified as a DDoS attack, and my host seems to have resolved it some time yesterday night.

I just now finished switching the gallery from Coppermine to Lumora Gallery, which is my own creation. I wasn't entirely happy with Coppermine anymore, and ended up making a gallery with my own needs in mind and also one that is more mobile friendly than Coppermine. At least I think so, I hope you do too! Feedback is welcome.

Anyway, everything should be up and working now!

Sorry for this morning's downtime! There was a problem on the server that caused slowness and downtime. Required restarting mysql which was why the databases appeared lost for a moment.

Important Note:

I have hopefully now fixed the broken albums in the gallery. It was because there were accidental spaces in filenames and/or directory which old host handled differently so that everything worked so that I didn't even notice they were there. But on this new host I had do a fix to remove the spaces both in the server as well as in the database (I didn't have the time to do all that until I'd finished moving all my sites to the new host).

As always, if you spot broken links, do let me know so I can fix them!

The move to new host is now complete and everything should be working normally. If you spot any errors or things missing, do let me know!

The DNS update to the new server can take anywhere from several minutes up to 48-72 hours.

Once you can see the page at https://www.xenacentral.com/moved.html you know you’re viewing the site on the new server!