My Radio Userland subscription expires in less than two weeks, and I've been plotting to move to the Wordpress platform, and hosting it on my own webspace (rather than using theirs). As some of you know, there used to be a lively and convivial community of bloggers on this Salon.com Radio platform, but nearly everyone has moved on to other platforms as blogging technology passed the Radio platform by.
I was kind of dreading the whole process of the learning curve there, plus the question of what to do with nearly 4 years of Perils posts here at Salon. I was wondering if I should just throw in the towel and pay for another year.
I started fooling around with the Wordpress stuff today, and stumbled across some arcane forum posts telling how I might be able to import my Radio posts into Wordpress. I wanted to do it if I could, because who knows how long they'll keep this server up while receiving no revenue. I presumed that, maybe 500 man-years later, I'd get some poorly-formatted text over, and probably lose all my links and photos.
However, after an hour or two of noodling around, my entire blog - text, links, photos - has been nicely imported into my Wordpress site. I couldn't be more thrilled, since I believe others much more savvy than I have struggled mightily with this. Check it out here.
I need to play around some with the themes and templates to customize them, but unless some glitch occurs, that's where you'll find me. I'll simulcast here and there for the next several days, or until my Radio subscription expires.
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