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My new home

Well, aside from a few kinks along the way, I think I’ve got the most painful part of the migration done.  I’m all set up here at http://blog.michw.com. As far as I can tell, all the links now point to where they should in my new domain. It was a bit confusing – I had to make changes to my name server – I had to temporarily point it to my blog wordpress.com instead of letting Bluehost manage it. Then I configured the domain from wordpress.com, paid my $9.97, switched back the name server on Bluehost, and I was on my way. Aside from some pesky things like the sourcecode plugin, the theme, and the layout… oh yes, and I also lost all of my links! :( I think I’ll have to put them back in manually.

2010
01/21
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Moving to WordPress.org…

In a completely impulsive decision, I decided to move my WordPress.com blog over to my own domain hosted on Bluehost. It’s impulsive mostly because I have no idea what I’m doing, and am quickly becoming overwhelmed. I don’t know how the transition will go, because I’m still figuring it all out. So far, I’ve got myself space and a domain name at Bluehost – michw.com. Pretty simple. But there’s nothing at michw.com yet. I managed to export this blog to xml, and import it to Bluehost really easily (it can be found, in a sort of incomlete state, at www.michw.com/blog). Now I need to figure out how to get my wordpress.com posts linked over to there. So essentially, most of the content of my blog exists in two places simultaneously. I have no idea what happens when someone searches for something in that blog now. I guess they’ll get directed here…

I did find some helpful stuff on good ol’ Google — such as this document (from this website). Although it may be a bit dated. And it’s discouraging that the links on the blog in their example don’t work any more. But I am guessing that they might have stopped paying WordPress the 10 bucks a year to forward the links to their new site…

2010
01/21
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WordPress source code posting

I saw this link from WordPress the other day, describing how to insert source code into your WordPress blog.  More details can be found here.  I am guessing that I will occasionally wish to do this… God knows I’m always trying to remember how I did something, how I ran that function or what that module was called.  I find that often the best way to remember how I did something is to see an example of the actual code I wrote way back when.

2009
12/11
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