My heart will break
I have loved you for so long…
No, I’m not quitting blogging. I am going to take a stab at using Wordpress instead of MT.
Why would I want to learn a new publishing platform, you ask? Well, I find that I just have too much time on my hands. Yep. Three kids are not enough to keep me busy. Neither is my role as CEO (OK, glorified bookkeeper) in the office. My contract educational work isn’t enough either. Nope. I just sit here all day twiddling my thumbs, so I thought I’d take on a new task.
I wish I were that bored. Not all the time…but sometimes it would be nice.
Truth be told, it all started when SAJ so generously created new banners for me (FIVE! With four more to be revealed!). Learning how to change them was time consuming and frustrating. I had to enlist the help of Miss reddirtroad to tweak it for me. While I was mucking around, I thought I would do a few other layout changes. I was reading a help tutorial, which said something like this:
"MT doesn’t have the "push button" simplicity of Wordpress’ Pages feature." It then rambled on how instead of a one-step process to do what I wanted using Wordpress, I could go through a TWELVE step process to do the same thing in MT. While the Type A person in me is always up for a challenge (and probably in need of a twelve-step program), the rational part of me (she shows up every once in a while) told me to consider switching.
I emailed the wonderful Whoorl for her two cents (that’s a penny U.S. with the exchange), as she just switched from MT to Wordpress. She had nothing but good things to say. I emailed reddirtroad as well, and she told me that she sets up all of her new clients on Wordpress.
Sold!
I just signed up with Bluehost, and tonight I’ll do the switch. What does this mean for you, my throngs of adoring fans?
Not much. My url will stay the same. They say it can take up to 72 hours for the switch to happen, so I’m guessing you’ll just see a blank screen in the meantime. For all of you who either link to me, or show up as "no referring link" in my counter (hi!), just keep checking back and one day soon I’ll mysteriously reappear. For you Blogliners, I think you’ll have to check manually until my site is up and running because the feed will likely be different. I think.
Hopefully I’ll master Wordpress quickly and be back in action sooner rather than later. Will you miss me?
Have a great day, folks - it’s supposed to get up to 16 degrees today and 18 tomorrow!
**Updated to add:
Transfer has been started. It can take up to seven days for my current host to release me.
SEVEN DAYS! I am NOT A PATIENT PERSON. The wait MIGHT JUST KILL ME.
So…I may still be posting here in the meantime. Or not. Or maybe I’ll just post more pictures on Flickr. Or not. Maybe they’ll release me sooner.
Dear host: If you love me, set me free…
5 Comments
Since switching to Wordpress, my life has been easier! Honestly, I have no complaints at all, it is very easy to use. I’m sure the switch will be as smooth for you as it was for me!
Comment by Hannah on March 28th, 2007 @ 3:02 pmAng, I made the switch from Blogger to Wordpress- what an easy transition! I didn’t have to do anything! It was great! Now I am up and rolling at Wordpress and I couldn’t be happier!
Comment by Kiki on March 28th, 2007 @ 4:57 pmI switched to Wordpress and then switched back to MT. Wordpress doesn’t have all the options of MT and I don’t like being restricted in any way! That being said, I found Wordpress easy to set up and bluehost (which I’m on) has an automatic Wordpress installation so it should be extra straightforward.
Comment by trish on March 29th, 2007 @ 12:10 amI’ll miss ya! I am still on Blogger so all this is greek to me 
Where do you find the time???
Thanks for the heads up, I hope the switch goes well for you!
Comment by kristin on March 28th, 2007 @ 1:32 pm