Why I Moved My Blog From Wordpress.com
Finally I had decided to move my Wordpress.com blog to my own domain a couple of weeks ago. My reasons for taking up this decision were as follows:
And many other similar restrictions prompted me to finally take the blog to my own domain, which will allow me to have more control over it. It also means that I have to take care of everything now - installations, maintenance, backup, restore etc. I will miss the community feel of the Wordpress.com too!!
What I had thought as a simple enough procedure turned out to be slightly more work for me in the end. The installation of Wordpress itself, and the task of importing the posts into the new blog went like a breeze. Had to manually move the comments by copying and pasting and then editing the time stamps by hand. Even for ~10 comments it looked like a huge task!! Adding the tag line to the header in clasikue theme wasn’t straightforward either. Because clasikue converts every first letter of a word/sentence to lower case, titles of all the recent posts read more like a single paragraph; after a lot of experiments, I had to add the ~ character to separate one title from the other.
The final task was to create a styling for the programming language code and the shell commands: the first of these tasks was made simpler by the excellent plugin called iG:Syntax Hiliter and I had to add a new style manually to make shell commands standout. Installation of StatCounter and Google Analytics code was made simpler by the plugins created for the same purpose. I am yet to decide whether or not I need the WP-Cache plugin and also something to manage the uploaded images and other such files.
