Just a really quick note here to say that—I think—my stuff has all been migrated? Correctly? I’ve checked a couple of old posts, and it does seem that the images are pointing to the WordPress media library instead of to my old T***P*d website. Fingers crossed!
There’s definitely going to be some weirdnesses. (I can NOT complain.) For example, my media library is kind of a mess, because every single image was imported on the same day. Also, I don’t have my front page very well designed yet, and I don’t have links (even dead ones) to an archive, or to an “About the Author” type page, or anything like that.
Those cosmetic things, and structural things, will come in time.
For now, I just want to send a HUGE shout out to the people at WordPress. I had to make a number of decisions very rapidly, such as “where to go” and “what plan to buy,” and I am very, very happy that I paid for a higher-tier subscription that came with seriously good customer support. I cannot even IMAGINE what it must have been like behind the scenes, because I cannot be the only person who was unceremoniously dumped out of T***P*d with only about five weeks to get everything moved over.
I might, however, be the only person with an almost-twenty-year-old-blog who wasn’t able to get to her home computer at all for four of those five weeks.
Anyway, what I wound up doing was turning the import process over to the WP people. Developers, I guess, had to tweak their import tools to make it all work, if not make a brand new import tool from scratch. THANK YOU WORDPRESS.
I’m also going to add here: the customer service was FRIENDLY and MOSTLY HUMAN and VERY SUPPORTIVE. (Yeah, there’s a chatbot some of the time, but it’s a pretty good chatbot. Tech support is one of the good uses of chatbots.) If you, too, need to move your blog from a sinking service provider, I highly recommend WordPress.
This is the end of this unscheduled announcement. Stay tuned while I actually learn to use the design tools and make my blog look and feel a little bit more familiar and, I hope, a lot more user friendly. (That might have to wait till October.)
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