New Web Site!
Our web site has finally made the move to WordPress. Doing so was no easy task, since it meant having to move to a new internet hosting provider. The worst part of it was transfering all of the blog entries and photo gallery items. The photo gallery was a total pain because it required so many steps; it was literally a project all by itself. I also had to make some changes to the WordPress pages, but luckily the learning curve wasn’t too high.
I had to take a quick crash course in WordPress functionality. The system is really rather robust. I’m very impressed with it, and it’s relatively easy to use. I was able to bend an existing theme to my iron will in a matter of days, including separate templates for the blog and photo gallery. And the best part is that I can very easily switch themes whenever I want for a change of pace. I really like the one that I have though. I’ve also installed a number of helpful plugins, including a CAPTCHA anti-spam plugin and a Twitter output plugin.
The downside is that all of my old blog posts are still on Google. Although I was able to transfer the blog content to WordPress, all of the links out there still point to pLog. I’m going to try to set up a redirect that will send all pLog links to my new blog. At least people won’t end up with a 404 error. In the meantime, I should probably queue up Google to spider the new site.
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