Gosh,
That was a bit of a strain today. I decided to make the switch to WordPress today due to the changes that Blogger is introducing to their interface. And this means …
Shiny new domain name and a new format for the blog. Actually, the blog will evolve over probably the next month or so until I’m happy with it and then I’ll undoubtedly play with it even more as I find new things to add in.
I’ll have to see how it works out. Thoughts so far :
I’m using Bluehost on the recommendation of various sites. The site hosting looks good but their onboarding process is very broken at the moment. It hangs at the initial step and doesn’t believe it’s actually done when it has set the site up, so it tries to bring you round to the start again. The site is good … but Bluehost’s systems don’t think it is. You have to go in through the page admin in order to set things up.
But you don’t really want the set up process to be good (if you can pick 1 good 1 bad), you want the hosting to be up to the mark. Oh and it’s a paid thing as well, so that’s something new.
The new edition is working on WordPress, which seems ok. Editor is looking ok so far (and categories / tags are back).
The blogger import/export feature is broken, or it could be that I have too many posts. I’ve used the WP All Import plug in to make the transfer happen. It’s not for the faint hearted or techie averse. There’s another tool out there but it got bought by people who want £15 for essentially a 1 time use. Nope.
There are a few things I want to transfer over from the old blog as well. I’ve used “Collapsing Archives” to get an acceptable archive list again but I need to rebuild the blogrolls and the other lists.
But hopefully it’ll get there over time. I’ll also be looking to add back in the ability to pull in images from the phone because that became very useful.
In other news … I’m on leave this week ! Needed it after going a few months without a break. I don’t think I’ll be going too far, pandemic second wave and all. But I should look to escape the house at least once this week.
Outside (inside?) of that, Star Trek is happening :
That’s the Ellen Landry, an Akira class escort. The origin starter levels story for my character included an episode with a couple of the characters from Star Trek Discovery, which is where that name comes from. I’ll need to look up the other characters from that episode because they need to go shippy as well.
Star Trek Online is the only internet spaceship this week though. This week’s Community Goal has gone to Conflict Zone combat again, which … I’m steering well clear of. It’s not game play that I find either fun or productive.
There’s also Motorsport Manager things happening. I’ve pretty much got that game figured out now in terms of how to build a team to win. But I do enjoy the path to getting there.
And it’s ok for my body too ! Motorsport Manager is fairly hands off, whereas other games like Star Trek Online tend to really aggravate the various issues with my body. I can feel tight shoulders and poorly wrist at the moment.
But I am enjoying the game.
Time to hit post for the first new entry for this WordPress blog ? Here goes !
PS Stay safe everyone. Be well.