After viewing all the comments and suggestion. I have decided to build my site using WordPress. You guys are right, it is not that hard, to get the site up and running. It would not be elegant and professionally looking. It is functional at least. While I am doing that to keep making enhancement to the site, I am using micro.blog and medium.com in the mean time. Until the site is acceptable to my own minimum standards at least.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I really appreciate it.
One final question (I hope) on this thread. Once I have done more fine tuning to the WordPress site with more plug in , etc. Can I take that to another WordPress site? currently I am hosting that on dreamhost but I am thinking of moving that to another site such as one.com (see this post)
Hope I do not have to restart again if I move to another hosting site
Youâll need to export the content from the original site, then import it again to the new site. Iâm linking some videos I created for my campus a while back:
Bear in mind that this is for content, not for themes/plugins/etc., so youâll want to keep track of those and have a list so you know what to install at the new site. You may also need to recreate links to images and the like.
Itâs a heck of a lot better than starting over from scratch, though.
There are some hosts that will do migration assistance (Reclaim Hosting is one example); for those that will, there may be a fee. If itâs a large or heavily customized site, that may be worth investigating.
But if the site doesnât already have tons of content and youâre not using lots of plugins, itâs really not a big deal to just set up your WordPress install at the new host and then import everything.
@fuzzygel In addition to what @acavender wrote ⌠there are migration plugins. This allows you to move your WP setup from one host onto your local computer. Then you can bring in that exported migration into the new host once youâve installed the same migration plugin. If your hosting will do this for you via migration assistance then thatâs great and the easier way to go. (Reclaim Hosting rocks, btw.)
The migration plugin I use is All-in-One Migration. It will work for free up to 512 Mb in size. Larger than that then youâll need to purchase on of the âunlimitedâ versions (e.g. migrate to Dropbox or other services).
For migrations, BackupBuddy is relatively user-friendly. And if youâre on cPanel (which I believe DreamHost uses?), and moving to a new cPanel-based host, your new provider can (whether they will is a different question!) do a straight-up full-account migration and you donât have to do anything.
If itâs WordPress.com, you should be able to set up everything right on their site.
If youâre looking for self-hosted, both BlueHost and SiteGround offer 1-click WordPress installs and decent support.
And on the off chance youâre looking at doing the thing where you spin up a VPS to run your own WordPress site, thatâs beyond the scope of a forum answer.
As long as you already own MarsEdit, you just tell it that you want to set up a site. Give it your web address, your WP username/password, and anything else it asks you for.
Once youâve done that, MarsEdit uses a neat tool called âXML-RPCâ to post and get posts from your blog. Basically, MarsEdit loads up a special web address, logs in, and sends your post over.
FYI everyone, as mentioned in the other thread. I have decided to set up a wordpress.org hosting with Dreamhost for now. I may migrant to another hosting service depending on cost.
Setting installing the wordpress and plug in not hard at all. I did that all in one morning. It is not pretty but at least functional. I shall keep on doing continuous enhancement
This is my blog site fuzzygel.com . Appreciate your review and feedback
I have recently gone from paying for hosting to a simple approach of using Google Domains then linking to Google Sites and Blogger. The total cost is less than $20 AUD per year, basically, you just pay for the Domain name.
Both sites offer enough control over the HTML etc to make attractive and functional websites. Google branding is easy to remove.
You can also set up Gmail to receive and send your Domain email.
Yep, unless youâre making money or have a lot of traffic, the free version is fine.
There are lots of hosts that provide backup services, backing up your MySQL or other database, etc. but also, regularly export your posts via the WP Tools option. If you use SFTP, occasionally grab a copy of your Media directory, too.
The MySQL backup is much more effective, but Iâm an adherent of the multiple redundant backups religion.
thanks @Medievalist . Just checking⌠I am using Ulysses to post to my blog. Do I still need to maintain a backup from WP? Wouldnât Ulysses saves a backup set on iCloud already? A question from the blog rookie
