Welcome!
This is my first new blog post on my new platform for fpdorchak.com! I hope you like the new look…I’m really happy with the outcome, though the process has been a veritable slog.
I won’t go into all the details, but let’s just say it was not as easy as everything made it to appear. One of my remaining issues is the inability to import over all my Running Off At The Mouth (ROATM) blog posts from WordPress.com. You see, I’m now “on” WordPress.org (called by “registrar”). And my old fpdorchak.com was moved from Homestead to Blue Host (my hosting site for fpdorchak.com). I’m using StudioPress “themes” (how my stuff appears on-screen and is “worked” through SEOs, etc). And it turns out with the past two or so weeks I’ve been working all this, that since I have several years of blog posts, it’s not an easy thing to do. At all. My Reality Check blog posts moved over easy because I don’t have as many, but since I have so many ROATM posts, I need to fork out an additional sum of $129 to get ye old “Happiness Engineers” at WP.com to do the deed. And there is no way around this…unless you have coding background (which I do not have) to get this done.
But…no worries to readers! This will be done without interruption (I’m told). In fact you can still view all my blog posts as they currently exist…but once the transfer has been made, you will automatically be redirected to this location.
So my “Evil Plan” is nearly complete!
Please stay tuned and continue to check back. I still need to add a newsletter, and I also plan on creating a new site for my burgeoning amateur photography. And have to clean up loose ends like having default crap from the demo templates in my stuff. But for now…I’m kind mentally spent on this whole “Evil Plan” transition thing. I’m not cut out to do evil plans, I guess. There is SO much more than meets the eye in today’s website creation/transfers than when I last did it, and none of the “easy” procedures theoretically “spelled out” across WP.org, WP.com, and StudioPress are easy. They list stuff piecemeal, but not by function, like “To add books, you need to do all of the following.” They instead show you how to “add books,” but not how to arrange them on the page, and do all you need to do to make them presentable in one easy procedure. They are all listed a la carte, so you have to know what else to do and search out and stitch them together on your own. Or so was my experience. I created many trouble tickets—and to be fair, the SP Help folk were quick in responding.
BUT.
Give them screen shots when you contact them, because otherwise you’ll be running round and round with them as they initially and continually tell you to just “follow the instructions.”
I’m exhausted just thinking about all this again. But happy with the end result.
Later.
Once again, I feel sorta worn out just by imagining all the techno-work that’s gone into creating your new site, Frank. As if I’d been doing it myself! But it does look good though, and I’m happy for you that at least one of your WP blogs transferred over fairly easily. I do kind of think that’s a pretty dirty thing for them to do though — charging you EXTRA because of how many posts are on Running Off At the Mouth. Sort of feels like they’re penalizing people for actually using their other range of services! Wish for your sake that there was an easier (and cheaper!) way of getting it done, but I certainly understand how sometimes you just don’t have a choice. If you want something, you have to do “x” to get it, even if you shouldn’t have to. So congratulations on the new site, Frank! Hope the rest of your transitioning goes a bit smoother…
My hat is off to you, Frank. This can’t be easy. Even though they SAY it’s “easy”! I can certainly understand wanting to pull everything together like this. Things are looking good so far, though. Good luck!