Category: Geek Love

I had posted this before, but it has been a few weeks so I wanted to remind everyone again. If you host with Bloghosts, they will be closing their doors at the end of the year. Pretty sad, since they started up about the same time as I started Blogomania.

With over 370 clients and growing, Blogomania isn’t going anywhere. We know that moving a site is a royal pain, and to help ease the pain for those people affected by this transition, we are offering a free month of hosting to all new Blogomania clients that come from Bloghosts. Just note in the “where did you hear about us?” field of the registration form that you are coming from Bloghosts, and we’ll hook you up. We can even assist you with the migration of your site to make the moving process easier on you.

One month. FREE. (It seemed worth repeating.)

I know people have been looking for WordPress friendly hosts – we have the servers configured with everything that you need, and we even offer Fantastico, which allows you to install WordPress in a matter of minutes. Very, very smooth.

So let us know if we can help. It takes a day or two to do a migration, so I dread seeing a mad crunch at the end of everyone trying to move at once. Move now while it’s not such a rush!

I have always loved RSS. I loved my feedreader long before feedreaders were cool. I have tried to encourage everyone I know to use RSS, to offer up a good solid RSS feed (full posts, PLEASE). For awhile, I was surfing sites one at a time, but I’ve taken to using Bloglines and I enjoy being able to zoom through my reads at a much faster pace.

The point of all of this? I’m now going to share my love of RSS (and Atom) with the rest of the world, thanks to the Lockergnome’s RSS & Atom Tips channel. Be sure to subscribe to the feed so you can watch for updates!

I want to move this site back to MT, only there is one problem. I can’t find a way to get the data out of WP. I’ve found this posts on exports for backups in the WP forums, but that’s not quite what I need. I would think that thanks to the power of MySQL, this shouldn’t be that hard – but as Mike pointed out to me the other night, the database formats are entirely different.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Going home for the holidays? Are you prepared to offer your family and friends the tech support they so desperately need? Maybe you should load up your USB drive before you visit so that you will have all the handy goodies you will need while you are there. Then you might want to read up on The Tech Support Generation so that you know you’re not alone in this new holiday ritual.

I have a confession. As much as I adore Matt, there are many things about WordPress that feel are over my head or I just don’t have time to figure out. I am this close (*pincy fingers*) to moving back to Movable Type. I miss working with something that I know like the back of my hand. I miss the community of MT users (even though I still have MT running for some things, I’m not using it for the main site). I just … I miss it. Maybe if Matt was still here and available to help like he was when I first decided to switch over, I might feel differently. Maybe if there wasn’t such a sense of a rift among WP users – the hard core geeks that demand standard complaince and the general users that just want something that work well. Sure, you encounter that all over the web, but … it’s not the same. I can’t put my finger on it. Maybe it’s just because I still have a lot more ties to the MT world than I do to WP (ironic, considering the fact that I helped with the name, huh?)

I don’t know. The one thing that is holding me back is the fact that it is SO easy to moderate comments in WP. I deleted 123 comment spam messages that WP caught and put in to moderated mode in a matter of a second or two. From what I’ve seen of MT Blacklist, that still isn’t an option. (I could be wrong though, and if I am – I apologize.) But really – is it wise to stay on a blogging platform that I still just don’t “get” after using it for 4-5 months? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use what I know? I’ve wanted to redesign this site for 3 months at least, bringing back skins … and the thought of trying to do it in WP has stopped me from moving forward at all.

I miss templates. Oh, how I *really* miss templates.

I miss MT. I can’t deny it any longer. I just … I want to go home. WP is *perfect* for Pixelog, and working very well there. But it’s not working here. I’m not happy.

I want to switch back. I want to use what I know and what I love.