Yesterday, I got it in my head that I’ve be happy moving my blogging over to the free hosting at wordpress.com, and it didn’t work out so well, since I tripped over a bug that confused me. It was fixed pretty quickly by most measures, but I got impatient, and started thinking about what I was doing. It made the most sense to move the whole site over to a WordPress-friendly host. So here I am, after moving my blosxom blog over to Yahoo! Web Hosting. I did not have to pull a total all-nighter (and when you are changing DNS entries, it’s best to put some space between the update and when you start tinkering a lot).
In a few subsequent posts, I’ll describe some tips and tricks that I learned along the way in case it helps anyone else:
- Moving jepstone.net from he.net to Yahoo!
- Importing my blosxom entries
- Recategorizing the WordPress entries
- Setting up a semi-intelligent script to figure out where old permalinks should go
[...] One of the nice things about moving to a hosted WordPress solution is that I can import my old RSS feed, have more control over the templates, and do some other hacking. I’m documenting what it took to move my blosxom blog over to WordPress in case it helps anyone who needs to do the same thing in the future. [...]