Blog software – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:39:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 Migrating a WordPress blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/04/03/migrating-a-wordpress-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/04/03/migrating-a-wordpress-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:44:57 +0000 https://www.henrypoon.com/blog/?p=2063 Since a few months ago, I migrated my blog from the previous free installation of WordPress that WordPress.com offered, to the self-hosted installation offered by WordPress.org (note that one is .org and the other is .com).  Here are just a few of the key differences stated briefly:

  • Self hosted installations allow greater control over what plugins the blog uses, what domain name to use, monetization, among other things
  • The cost is the added time required to tweak to do the setup and customisation

After I chose to switch to the self-hosted installation, I faced the problem of having to migrate all of my content, site stats, and followers.  I also had to set up proper URL redirection to the new website.  Most of the guides I read did answer how to migrate content, and set up URL redirects, but it was not so clear as to how to migrate my site stats and followers.

Content Migration

For migrating content, the WordPress.com blog allows exporting blog content into a file to be imported into the new WordPress installation.  Steps 1 to 3 in this guide illustrate the process: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-move-your-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/

Migrating Site Stats and Followers

Migrating site stats and followers requires installing the Jetpack addon and linking it to the WordPress.com account (so that the self-hosted WP and the existing WP blog are connected).  Afterward, a support thread has to be made on WordPress.com to ask WP staff to do the rest of the migration (there seems to be no other way).  I found the information on how to do this at this site: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/161633/migrating-stats-from-wordpress-com-blog-to-self-hosted-wordpress-org-blog.  The post I made for my own site migration is here.

Setting Up URL Redirection

This part costs money unfortunately.  I paid ~$17 CAD for this so that my own URL would be redirected for the new one.  If redirection isn’t required, then there is no need to buy anything.  The setup is pretty straight forward.  After buying the redirect, it is just a matter of setting the destination WordPress site to go to.  Reference link here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2015/04/03/migrating-a-wordpress-blog-from-wordpress-com-to-wordpress-org/feed/ 0 2063 Previous Posts have the Wrong Timezone https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/12/03/previous-posts-have-the-wrong-timezone/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/12/03/previous-posts-have-the-wrong-timezone/#respond Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:00:51 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/previous-posts-have-the-wrong-timezone For some reason when I imported my Blogger posts into WordPress, the timezones changed.  It must have been because I never changed the timezone of the WordPress blog before I imported.  This issue affects all the posts before this one.  The correct time should be whatever time it says on the post minus eight.  This time is also consistent with the timezone shift from GMT to Pacific Time.

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/12/03/previous-posts-have-the-wrong-timezone/feed/ 0 50 Another Day at Work + Japadogs https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/11/17/another-day-at-work-japadogs/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/11/17/another-day-at-work-japadogs/#respond Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:20:00 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/another-day-at-work-japadogs Just another day at work.  Slept in tutorial, surfed the Internet.  What was different though was that we finally got an update on the CMS implementation.  On the agenda now is setting up the wordpress blog and the new navigation system.

Japadogs were at UBC today.  After wrestling with my impulses I decided that I wouldn’t buy one.  Even if they were incredibly good Japanese style hot dogs.

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