Should we move to WordPress?
November 10, 2006We’ve been long contemplating about moving Shale, from its current home at i.ph, to WordPress. Nothing against where we are right now, but although Shale has never looked any slicker, we thought it’s time to move out of where we are and go into somewhere new, and probably slicker. If so, we would probably even relaunch, with a new name.
But why now, when we’re in the middle of launching two new sister blogs and a lot of things are in the horizon, despite us being really busy with school? To be honest about it, it’s all a whim. That’s why we’re asking you guys whether we should even move - move to somewhere new, and somewhere probably easier for us to work with, now that we’ve started to ease towards a new direction, or stay here and grow.
We’ll admit, it hurts if we move blogs (and definitely not move all the entries, unless we all prefer to do it manually, which is very tedious work), and we don’t really want to leave behind the comments already made about this one, like the reputation we’ve gained covering the General Elections, or from the handful of people in other countries (especially radio presenters, like Annie Mac) who’ve noticed and taken note. We’d gladly appreciate your thoughts; to send them in, comment on this entry, or email us at shale@i.ph. Nevertheless, we hope to have you staying when we do decide to move (if you say so, or if we find WordPress easier), and watch out for future developments in this space.
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ust nalang kayo muna kumampi. hahaha!
Do you mean WordPress, the full version, or WordPress.com, the free hosted version? You've linked to the free version, which limits design and layout and Plugins.
Either way, it will be a lot easier to use and you can import your old blog's content very quickly, if it is in one of the many formats available for importing. See Importing Content for more information on that. It also imports comments.
Then you can do away with the silly spam control captchas (which are proven to not work) and take advantage of Akismet and the other comment spam fighting tools WordPress uses.
Good luck and I hope this information helps you make your transition a smooth one.
Posted by Lorelle at January 9, 2007, 10:56 am