The month of February has been a too much of an hassle for me. At the start of the month, I was busy working and launching my book on blogging called A Blogger’s Manifesto which is a short ebook about blogging that talks about my journey in the world of blogging and I have lot to offer for newbie bloggers and especially for those who are getting started out in the world of book blogging.
You can check it on Amazon or Goodreads for what others have to say!
Next, step, I took my blog from WordPress.com to a self hosted site using open source WordPress.org module. It was exciting at first, then became tedious when it came to transfer almost all data from .com to .org. It took me a lot of time to decide on theme or which plugins to use and setup and everything. Though I am professional web developer, I haven’t had any experience with WordPress prior to this.
Setting anything from scratch can be a tiring job in this fast changing world. It took me 7 days to organize every post (600+ posts at the time of transfer) and now I have to remind myself for taking the backup. (If you know, an easy way to do this, let me know). Though, I am not a big fan of PHP, I’d love to edit the theme I am currently using. Will look into that later.
Congrats on the book! And good luck with the newly hosted site. Looks pretty good to me ;-). I also have to think about making a backup of my blog (although I have one with another site, but not all the photos) and maybe think about a possible migration as well :-). I can only imagine how hard the whole organizing posts process was.
The backup part has so many options that it is overwhelming. Migration is not tricky but time consuming. Thanks!
Wow, that is fantastic! I wish your eBook long-term success!
Thank you so much Alexandria 🙂
Ah, it’s so much easier to use the plugins I bet when you’re self hosted. I am a developer too, but I find it unbearable to try and fix my blog’s problems. Great theme though, keep up reading!
Plugins are helpful. But the lack of support in some cases from the wordpress itself is disappointing.