Today, the most romantic day of the year, I finally sorted out this website.
Previously I’d been running Drupal. Drupal has many good features – the problem is that it’s a better community CMS than a single-person blogging tool. Given that I seem to be slowly surrendering control over my tools to the cloud, the lack of export facilities was also a killer. And so I’ve migrated to WordPress.
Migration did look like it would prove a headache; luckily, I realised soon enough that I could just drag & drop in ecto. I’ve lost the [few] comments, and post categories, but it was otherwise entirely painless. I’ve also given up on my own theme – I’ve just tweaked one of the many nice themes for WordPress, and saved myself a heap of time.
Polly has had her blog go the whole mile – it’s now hosted on wordpress.com. My own is still on my A2 account, since I’ve already paid for it. However, it’s now a trivial exercise to move it off if I decide to. My photos, links and email are all farmed out – it seems silly to bugger about with web hosting.
