How hard can it be?!

April 6, 2012

JY Yang

Starting a new blog website you should be able to do it with your eyes closed right?

Yet its taken me an entire day to port my old website over onto a WordPress engine buy it a new theme install said theme customize theme design headers and banners import selected content from two of my WordPress blogs that henceforth shall continue living our their purposes here

Why I thought Id manage to do it in a couple of hours entirely escapes me.

It wasnt helped by the fact that my hosting provider is slower than WordPress servers and their file management interface is a bit dodgy. I had to rip out my existing WordPress install and put a fresh one in. And I still had to open a support ticket when the theme I wanted to upload exceeded the filesize limitation that they had set. To their credit It took them less than two hours to respond to the support ticket and up the limit for me. Thank you FatCow

On the other hand I have to give major credit to WordPress for making it so easy to take content from one WP blog and import it into a new one. Everything came along with the XML file attachments comments pingbacks everything Super neat WordPress. I like.

No kudos though for letting me think Id accidentally managed to delete the open call page for The Ayam Curtain sending me into an hour of panic and selfrecrimination.

In effect I have transferred some content from The Magical Harkow the recent Blog Every Day April posts as well as most of the oped pieces from my defunct mainstream digital media blog Mainstream Mediacrity. Those two blogs will now remain ghost blogs digital archaeology I will consolidate my blogging efforts here. My fiction blog Mischief. Misrule. Misshallelujah. gets to stay where it is though. I will keep my reallife thoughts away from my imaginarium.

To give this post some sort of redeemable content Here have this amazing gorgeous video of Singapore shot by a Russian photographer. Yes we really do move like that in this country. The flow of time here is different like it is between the Heavenly Court of the Jade Emperor and the mortal world. Singapore2012 from zweizwei motion timelapse on Vimeo.