So, I’m planning on migrating from WordPress.com to a hosted version of WordPress and I was trying to post about it on my WordPress blog, and every damn time I tried to type “wordpress” it came out “worpdress.” And I thought, “wouldn’t worpdress.wordpress.com be a fantastically evil thing to call a wordpress blog? But surely it must be taken.”
It’s not! So I registered it! Hello, world!
I was taking notes as I went along, but I thought it would be even easier to document the migration process this way. Help me keep track of the notes and FAQs and stuff. Might come in handy for someone else contemplating the move. Even better, someone out there might give me a gratuitous smack with the clue bat, if I’m lucky.
This is going to be real quick and dirty. And, please god, temporary. So hitch up your britches, Granny. Here we go!
January 9, 2007 at 11:27 pm
My mother in law uses bluehost, and my wife (who maintains her mom’s web site) says they are good.
I noticed the bluehost’s wordpress interface was a little bit different, but it was the “free version”. Your mileage may vary.
January 9, 2007 at 11:38 pm
I signed up yesterday, just before they had a (I gather unusual) outage overnight. Luck of the weasel! They seem good, though — but it’s always tough getting used to a new control panel (and you have to send them a scan of a photo ID to get a shell account!).
I don’t know why I get myself into these things. Because it feels so good when I stop, I guess.
January 10, 2007 at 2:36 am
So are the “other” pages you maintain part of your super secret identity? By day, mild mannered news weasel, by night, SPAMMERMAN!
January 10, 2007 at 10:41 am
They mostly belong to friends and family. Amazing what you get suckered into when you know a little HTML.