Digital media – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 12 May 2025 07:00:22 +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 2014 in review https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2014/12/29/2014-in-review/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2014/12/29/2014-in-review/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2014 22:57:00 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/2014-in-review The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 90,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.

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Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 80,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/12/30/2013-in-review/feed/ 1 1791 2010 in Review https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2011/01/02/2010-in-review/#respond Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:30:19 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/2010-in-review The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

Featured image

A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,600 times in 2010. That’s about 16 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 85 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 120 posts. There were 48 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was November 23rd with 83 views. The most popular post that day was South Korea: Yet Again Swallowing the Bitter Pill.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were zamunda.net, facebook.com, dailyblogged.com, google.com, and en.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for p1i windows 7, p1_usb_signed_drivers, p1_usb_signed_drivers.rar, p1_usb_signed_drivers package, and failed to load resource sony ericsson.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

South Korea: Yet Again Swallowing the Bitter Pill November 2010
1 comment

2

Connecting a Sony Ericsson P1i to a Windows 7 x64 Computer in Phone Mode December 2009
1 comment

3

Snow Leopard on a Dell Inspiron 1520 June 2010
17 comments

4

How to Install Solidworks 2008 on a x64 Operating System November 2009

5

SolidWorks 2010 Side-By-Side Configuration Error Fix August 2010
5 comments

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]]> 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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