And the site is moved, except…
The site is moved, except my Picasa gallery doesn’t work here. I’ll move some photos to Flickr and embed them in the appropriate stories, but the lack of a way to embed an external set of photo galleries is a bit awkward.
I have never personally hosted a site with a third party. Are the third-party restrictions causing the problems, or something else?
The only experience that I have migrating a site to a third party was for a client that wanted GoDaddy hosting. The site build took much longer than it should because of the FTP and edits were agonizing because of permissions and the overall slow going of things.
The site is now hosted at WordPress.com. They are very restrictive (not a bad thing). My previous host was stuck at WordPress 2.9.2 and would not upgrade or allow upgrades. With WordPress.com I’m going to always be at the bleeding edge
I had some problems with the export from the old blog and import here. Found about a dozen old posts that didn’t make it through the transition, so I changed the author for those old posts to “export” and then ran the export again for just those posts, then imported the XML file for just those posts. That worked fine.
Quite a few photos ended up duplicated and mis-indexed. Fixed that. And yes, doing this one photo at a time through a web-based GUI was agonizing. Would have been nice to have a gridded catalog-like layout choice for the photos.
I can pay extra for third-party plugins, but except for the photo gallery function I had before where a plugin pulled those photos in from Picasaweb, I don’t really need that functionality. I just miss it is all!
And more broken images today…almost like the caching being used takes a day or so to catch up to the changes I’ve made. Looks like I’ll be reviewing pages and posts a couple of evenings this week! Eventually it will be back to normal, I’m sure.
Was your original template from WP themselves… or from a 3rd party company? I have some 3rd party and I’ve hosted them with Inmotionhosting (great host company BTW). I’m wondering, does WordPress allow you to host the 3rd party templates that are not technically made my WP?
My theme is Garland with some self-selected color coding.
There are a range of premium features available through WordPress.com. For example, you can purchase a premium theme through WordPress.com. You’re not able to upload your own, but purchasing a framework-type theme and then enabling the custom design upgrade would let you manipulate a theme pretty freely.
EDIT: Changed the theme to something a little more fun