Tag Archives: maintenance

I’ve owned domains for a long time now.  My first domain net-marks.com comes from a time when there was only one domain registrar, and the yearly cost for a domain was more than three times what it is now.  For almost as long as I’ve had a site where software that I’ve written was readily available. In the pre-CMS days, I used to do all pages by hand, because that’s all we had – and we liked it.  Later, on a suggestion from Cheryl, I started using FrontPage – also known as “the land of an insane amount of garbage tags in your code“.

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So part of what’s going on here is that my “grand plan”^TM included moving from a few single site installs of WordPress to instead using WordPress MU.  This step is now officially complete.  It’s not that I’m hosting a lot of blogs here, but rather that I’m more the sort who prefers “one stop shopping” – especially for maintenance.  If there’s too many steps to a thing I’ll avoid doing it.

Moving a WordPress blog isn’t rocket science, but there are some considerations to be made.  And I recommend 3 precursor steps to any WP blog move:

1. Use FTP to back up your WP Install.  This way you’ll pick up themes, plugins, and media that have been uploaded.
2. Use something like phpMyAdmin to do an export of your Blog’s database.
3. Use the WordPress “Export” function to export your blog data to an XML file.

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