Les Jones: OK, I'm Totally Sold on Wordpress

July 19, 2007

Blogging > OK, I'm Totally Sold on Wordpress

I knew that Wordpress was mad popular. Then I used it as a poster at Knoxville, Tennessee Blog and thought it had some interesting features. Then I installed it and used it to create Rock Stars Against Live Earth and was really impressed with it, especially the templates and the speed of posting. Beyond the base install, the plug-ins really kick butt, too. (It's amazing how many MovableType plug-ins haven't been updated in years.)

So the plan is to pay a consultant to figure out my migration/URL issues and then switch to WordPress.

One question. I had a draft post at Rock Stars and I noticed it stayed at the top of the posting page. What happens when you have like dozens and dozens and dozens of draft posts (which I do)? They're not all listed on the Write Post page, are they? Likewise, is there a way to only show draft posts?

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When you get it figured out Les, please let me know. I'd love to migrate...but damn, do I have to hire a consultant?

Posted by: Mushy at July 19, 2007

Probably not. It's pretty easy to install. My Webhost even has a feature where they can install it for you automatically.

The reason I need a consultant is so that I can preserve all of my URLs. So like this post is http://www.lesjones.com/posts/004544.shtml now, and I want it to be the same URL after migration so I don't lose my Google position.

Posted by: Les Jones at July 20, 2007

You mean you're hiring a consultant to keep your links where you linked to yourself the same? or to keep all google results pointing to the right thing?

Or are you going to try to keep the same permalink structure?

There should be a php function to have google searches, etc, find the right post on your new site.

Posted by: jonathan hickman at July 20, 2007

I'm trying to keep my URL scheme in perpetuity to preserve my Google juice, which is pretty strong. From what I've read it can be done, but it requires some fiddling with the import filters.

Posted by: Les Jones at July 22, 2007