So I have been playing around with the idea of moving my blog from wordpress.com to my own hosted site. I started reading up on what needs to be done in order to move from my wordpress.com address to a different site and it turns out it is really hard with large sites. So I decided to take the step and move to http://www.scottwarren.info/ . I still have to set everything up but I thought that I should start letting people know because I’m planning on not updating this blog after today (assuming I get access to my webpage before tomorrow afternoon).
I had a lot of reasons for doing this. The first was Google Analytics. I really like Google Analytics because it gives you a much more detailed view of you site than the integrated wordpress stats plug in. By using my own site I can modify the template for this site so I can actually use that. I also want to have more control over the way things are added to my site. It’s really nice to be able to add a custom script or plug-in to perform actions that WordPress just doesn’t support. I also have had problems getting changes uploaded to a binary file without changing the files path everywhere on the site.
The only downside to moving is that I have to pay for everything now and I really hope I don’t go over on my bandwidth use age. I should have all the problems ironed out this weekend.
January 28, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Hi Scott! First of all, I love that moon photo and would love a copy. The moon was awesome this month, glad you captured it. The auto show pictures look great–wonderful color and form in your pictures. What was the most green car of the auto show and what was the least?