Migrating to Wordpress.. part 1
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Quite a few people (more then I thought) expressed interest in find out my experiences in moving to wordpress as a blogging platform. So I thought I would blog my experiences and what I had/have to do.
First of all... I know f*&k all about wordpress. From using Squarespace and wordpress just as a "user" I preferred wordpress. As an "admin" I didn't like the lack of control moving my blog to www.wordpress.com gave me (you have very limited options). As opposed to just going to Wordpress.com, you can have your wordpress site hosted instead, which costs money but gives you much more control. So decided on that. I did some searching and twittering, and dreamhost was recommended to me as a hosting company to contact.
The recommendations were well warranted. These guys have been helpful to the extreme so far, putting up with my "I'm technical alright but know nothing about the architecture" questions. My hosted site is now built but I don't have to transfer my DNS yet. So it is sitting here at the moment looking all empty. More as I figure it out.
Quite a few people (more then I thought) expressed interest in find out my experiences in moving to wordpress as a blogging platform. So I thought I would blog my experiences and what I had/have to do.
First of all... I know f*&k all about wordpress. From using Squarespace and wordpress just as a "user" I preferred wordpress. As an "admin" I didn't like the lack of control moving my blog to www.wordpress.com gave me (you have very limited options). As opposed to just going to Wordpress.com, you can have your wordpress site hosted instead, which costs money but gives you much more control. So decided on that. I did some searching and twittering, and dreamhost was recommended to me as a hosting company to contact.
The recommendations were well warranted. These guys have been helpful to the extreme so far, putting up with my "I'm technical alright but know nothing about the architecture" questions. My hosted site is now built but I don't have to transfer my DNS yet. So it is sitting here at the moment looking all empty. More as I figure it out.
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Landlord change, perhaps?
Posted by Vitor Pereira At 11:12:06 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
I've got a work in progress blog { Link } built via Wordpress too, but I'm buggered if I can figure out how to get my Domino based content exported in to it.
How are you migrating your content over Paul? Are you migrating, or starting afresh?
Posted by Frank At 13:03:08 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Mooney At 13:06:55 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Mooney At 13:06:55 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
I went to your wordpress blog but could not use Bloglines to find an RSS feed. Any idea ?
AL
Posted by Antoine Leboyer At 13:30:15 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
Enjoy and good luck.
Posted by Curt Stone At 15:23:36 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Chad Schelfhout At 17:15:09 On 11/03/2010 | - Website - |
Try bloglines again - I use it and it found PM's wordpress' feed.
@Paul,
Have fun with WordPress - especially with adding plugins ... recommend the following:
>> Akismet - for controlling spam
>> Bad Behavior - for controlling bad bots/clients
>> Bad Behavior Log Reader - to read why some bots/clients are being kicked off
>> Google XML Sitemaps - let google, et al, know when you've published something
>> WP Security Scan (only activate when checking security) - check that your WP setup is ok
Posted by Richard C At 13:57:40 On 12/03/2010 | - Website - |
Posted by Chris Miller At 05:36:36 On 13/03/2010 | - Website - |