Comments on: Follow-up to Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted

By: Matty

Matty — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:37 +0000

I found your article and Mad’s article on blog-well.com to be great sources when I did my blog transition. The bad news was that some of the content was outdated since it was posted almost a year ago. The good news is that your articles are still super helpful.
I’ll throw one more article into the mix:
Move your Wordpress.com blog
Adding it since it was recently published and I found it via digg.

Of course, I find it amusing that Wordpress makes it so hard to go to your own web host. Should be an easier and more intuitive process.

By: Sdott Elkin

Sdott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:40:40 +0000

@Michael – Thanks a lot! EasyTube was really close. It wants it in the format of [youtube:URL] (using a colon instead of an equal sign).

That was easy enough to edit in the plugin.

Thanks!

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:32:09 +0000

@Scott – Whoops! My bad. It’s EasyTube.

By: Sdott Elkin

Sdott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:59:57 +0000

@Michael:

The only thing I find mentionning the “EasyPress plugin” is this page!

Can you point me in the right direction?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:12:35 +0000

@Scott – try the EasyPress plugin.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:55:33 +0000

How do you move over all your youtube videos?

Wordpress puts them in a format of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgsaYQE9Sg]

which a self hosted blog doesn’t understand.

Suggestions?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:23:48 +0000

@ Cozmo – Thanks for commenting! No matter your choice, you will be faced with compromises. Whether you find them acceptable or not… that’s a different matter! I am unwilling to tolerate the compromises I would have to make in ownership and control in order to have a free-hosted blog, but others feel differently.

By: Cozmo

Cozmo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:55:57 +0000

There is something to be said about having something hosted for you though. Having your own domain is great and vital IMO, but having to update your copy of wordpress every time there’s a new release is no fun. There has to be a good compromise.

By: Mad

Mad — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:08:47 +0000

@Michael, You are most welcome. The value from blogging is the sharing of experience, including those of the readers which when shared as meaningful comments greatly improves the original post.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:15:00 +0000

I’ll be doing the opposite soon. I’m going from self hosted to wordpress.com. But that’s only if I can’t renew my domain name.