How To Migrate Your Blog From Wordpress.com To Wordpress.org
Like thousands of others, I started my blog on Wordpress.com. The benefits of doing so are too many to list here. But there are a few liabilities - such as when you want to ‘monetize’ your blog or use it for purely business related purposes. Or when you’ve decided that the Wordpress.com widgets don’t give you enough functionality, and you want to be able to use the full range of plug-ins. When that time comes, you have to migrate to a server hosting Wordpress.org software. When I migrated a few months ago I found a huge set of headaches waiting for me. I had to do a bunch of things the hard way, because, frankly, I didn’t anticipate 1) the need to ever make the transition and 2) that when I did it might prove detrimental to my blog. So I’m going to show you exactly how to do it correctly, from the time you start a blog on Wordpress.org to the time you decide to migrate to your own hosted server. (Aside - that title is misleading because you’re actually migrating your blog to a SERVER running software downloaded from Wordpress.org - but I had to keep it short and searchable.) Now then:
Hello world!
My first post on my first blog.
I have a number of things I will blog about in the upcoming days. Expect to see two types of posts here:
1. News items reporting innovative new technologies and practices. My current interests are biotech, nanotech, and energy tech but I am interested in any and all news items that illustrate principles of innovation. So if you see ‘em, send ‘em.
2. Discussions/essays on innovation, creative thinking, and related topics.
My writing style is terse and to the point, as opposed to my speaking style which is dry and irreverently sarcastic, but expect the latter to creep in the former from time to time.
Plus I know nothing about the functions and capabilities of Wordpress so this is a learning experience for me as well. One of my mottoes is ‘Keep Moving Forward’ so I hope to get to the point where I can give the blog a new and different look on a regular basis.
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