It sounds so important. I’m running a “network”. A network of blogs, that is. That’s what WordPress calls it, anyway. I have at this point, created the blog network on my web server and created each of the five individual blogs. How did I end up with so many? Oh, well, one is just the landing page, so I actually only have four blogs. Still, it’s a network. My blogus.
My installation wasn’t a success right off the bat. In fact, it was very painful and has taken one of my blogs offline until the new network starts up. Not really a big deal; it’s not like I’m Facebuuk. But there was a lot of outdated software that needed to be updated and along the way it was just decided to remove it all and start over. Then it was a matter of permissions, not that I should be complaining since my server hasn’t been hacked in the many years it’s been up and running. Now it’s just a matter of content.
Getting the posts onto the new server is actually a very easy task. You can export from one site and import to the other. But then, all of the images of those posts still point back to the original places, in my case, wordpress.com. So I will need to edit each post that contains pictures and switch out the image with a fresh local copy, which will upload to the new server. It’s not such a bad thing, because a lot of my early posts didn’t give consideration to the way Live Writer handled images. By default, it will create a link to the full-size version, so your media library gets a full-size image and a resized image to display in the post. If you don’t need that, it’s just a waste of space and really clutters up your media library. So I’ll be able to address that in my post revisions.
I’m going to lose a couple of things by moving to my own server. On the plus side, I’ll lose advertisements, since I’ll be using my own server. On the negative side, I’ll lose stats, which are really interesting if you have a popular blog, but are rather depressing if you don’t. For better or worse, I fit in the latter camp, so my loss isn’t too bad.
You know, it seems like a holiday ritual for me to do some sort of revision to my website(s). Maybe it’s the domain renewal that reminds me to look at what I have. Maybe it’s the promise of a new year. Maybe it’s the extra free time with the holidays. Of course, this year I am on my own and just now I’m realizing, this website revamping is something I hadn’t done in many years. Huh.
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