I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
Posted by Rod in Old-blog-archives at 9:44 pm on Friday, 28 July 2006
Can someone give me a hand to migrate to a WordPress hosted site? I don’t have time to do it myself and will gladly pay for someone to do it as a project.
Scope:
- Recommend a hoster (that can host as www.drury.net.nz)
- Set up my site and load the graphics
- Load up my existing posts. I can supply them in RSS format which I believe can be imported
Why do I want to do this?
- I wrote my own blog engine and don’t have the time to develop comments, trackbacks etc.
- It’s not a good use of my time when there are great products doing a better job. The features of blogging engines are getting better and better. E.g. comment spam
- I can use standard tools for posting
- I believe in hosted apps. I don’t want to run and manage my infrastructure. Its getting easier to swap machines and OS’s when its all in the cloud.
Preference is someone in Wellington so I can build a relationship. Lost of other little things to do with these skills. But give me a yell if it’s easy remotely.
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[...] Next was from me http://www.drury.net.nz/2006/07/28/word-press-skills-any-one/trackback/responding to Rod’s post, asking for professional help with setting up WordPress. I responded on Monday, a quick email exchange later, and I’m booked to show him how it’s done on Wednesday. Demo of WordPress setup stuff, and a bit of a chat about blogging in general, and a few choice suggestions to ease his switch process, and then back to the day job. A couple of evenings, a few more emails, some testing, and then he’s up and running on a new WordPress install on Dreamhost. [...]