Can you smell this?

Yes, this is the smell of a fresh new blog. And this is what a first post looks like.

The first post in the New Hello World blog. The old Hello World is still out there, on blogspot.

I’ve been planning to switch over from blogspot to my own domain name with a blog running on WordPress for quite some time now. Probably around a year or so.

The original plan was:

1 – Setup hosting + WordPress – done

2 – Migrate the posts from blogspot to this one – done. but later, undone.

3 – Write a “hi this is my new blog” post in the new blog

4 – Write a “bye I’m moving” post in the old blog

5 – Set up FeedBurner to grab the posts from the new blog feed

6 – Set up the old blog to redirect to the new one

7 – Set up the individual post permalinks on the old blog redirect to the corresponding permalinks on the new blog. I actually created this for a friend a while ago, so it was “almost” ready.

8 – Sit back and proudly inspect my brand new blog

Unfortunately, somewhere between step 2 and 3 I decided I want a cool theme. Not just any theme – it had to be fluid, to have 3 sidebars which could be placed on the left or on the right, to support WordPress widgets, and in short, be perfect.

This is where things started to go wrong. The perfect theme (which I did find) turned out to be really bad in handling <h1>, <h2>, and text longer than 2 words.

And just while I was gearing up to dive into the theme code and fix these annoying issues, things got really busy. And so we are here.

Obviously, a new plan was needed. So here it is:

1 – Setup hosting + WordPress – done

2 – Migrate the posts from blogspot to this one – done – and then deleted today because I changed my mind. Hey, if you really want to read the old posts, you can still find them on http://yanivg.blogspot.com.

3 – Write a “hi this is my new blog” post in the new blog. Hey, this is it.

4 – Write a “bye I’m moving” post in the old blog. Hopefully tomorrow.

5 – Set up a new FeedBurner feed on the new blog

6 – Sit back and proudly inspect my brand new blog

So, the new plan is 2 steps shorter. Only 4 more to go.

Stay with me :)

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