Setting Up is a Lot of Work!
Published by Toni March 22nd, 2006 in Uncategorized.I’m still in the process of fixing up my new movie blog. There’s so many things to do.
To answer Haemi’s question, I went with Bluehost. They are one of the WordPress recommended hosts, and they seem pretty cool. I had some trouble registering online (for some reason the form wouldn’t accept my phone number), but I called them and a guy was able to talk to me right away. We set up the account over the phone, and within a half hour or so my domain name was available.
They use Fantastico, which allowed me to install Wordpress with the click of a mouse. It was soooooo easy. I just wish they made that knowledge more prominent in their help section. I had to fish through the WordPress forums for that answer.
And now I have the fun in setting up.
1.) I have to move all the images out of the Reel Reviews wordpress server into my own, which means uploading all the images onto the new server, which means having to go through EACH post and changing the image tags 
I’m halfway done.
2.) I have to change all posts with Reel Reviews links to the new links.
3.) I have to transport all the links and whatnot.
For those who asked what it looks like, well I’m using Wordpress to power it. But I won’t be using cutesy themes though. Those are for this blog 
I’ve some some nice, professional looking ones that I’ll be editing (put in my own headers, for example).
Actually though, I’m considering putting in an actual website, not just a blog. I found these cool movie themed templates online. Here are some of the ones I found:
Of course, it would require some extra software and talent to use such templates. I dunno. It’s just an idea I’m kicking around.
I want to maintain the blog atmosphere for my review site since I want to keep comments available, but at the same time I’d like for it to be a little more than just a blog. What do you guys think? Should I go beyond a review blog and have stuff like trailers?
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6.95 for all that. Pretty cool. Are you going to host Kaonashi over there too? Did you get a domain name for Kaonashi? kaonashi.com perhaps?
Btw, what kind of control panel does Bluehost use?
Oh and what’s the domain name for reel reviews?
Hi Tinka,
I’ve been thinking about that. I do, but unfortunately all the good kaonashi domains are taken. I might just go with kaonashigasuki.com but that’s a lot to type
I am concerned though, about having to go back through all the posts and change links that refer to kaonashigasuki.com.
As for Bluehost’s control panel, I’m not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean cPanel X? Because that’s the name that shows when I log in.
The Reel Reviews URL is reelreviews.wordpress.com. Or you can just click on the button in the sidebar
My new blog is called something totally different.
Yup, cPanel. That’s cool. That’s what I use too. Seeing all that bandwidth and disk space makes me want to switch, but I don’t really need it all.
I’m not sure what you mean about going through all the posts and changing links. If you switch domains, all you’d need to do is important your WP tables into your new database. I can create a backup for you and email it to you. You’d have to go into phpMyAdmin to import the tables. You’d of course have to update your config.php file with the new info.
Where’s your new blog/domain at? I am curious which domain name you purchased.
Tinka,
What I mean is that, sometimes in a post I refer to an older post and provide a permalink. However, now that all the posts have been moved to the new blog, the permalinks will still be from the old blog. Eventually I’ll delete Reel Reviews, so all permalinks to that blog will be dead. To prevent that, I have to go back and change the links in the posts to point to the new permalink.
I haven’t revealed to anyone the new name yet since I’m still in the process of spiffying it up and fixing my mistakes
For example, I tried to import my comments using the comments feed (another example of restrictions by wordpress.com), but they appeared as posts! Now I have to go through and delete each one. Argh. Fortunately I don’t have a lot of comments.
I’ll probably announce the name and location on Monday.
I can’t wait for the unveiling!
I’m on Bluehost too - I’ve had no complaints, although I don’t have any special requirements from them.
Oh, one thing that might be a problem if you’re hoping for a lot of search traffic - duplicating existing content will confuse Google no end, and will penalise your new site. If you don’t have too many deep links, I personally would recommend deleting your old site bar a front page redirection once you get the new place open. I kept my two sites in parallel, and it was at least two months before my new blog started ranking higher than the old one for searches, and only just a couple of days ago has my new blog seemed to appear out of the shadow of the old, as I started aggressively deleting content from the old blog.
I see you can do a custom 404 page - you can’t on Blogger, so that could be used to redirect people clicking deep links to the new site.
Search for the “Google sandbox” to see what I mean.
Wow it sure sounds like a lot of work. Good luck. You might have read this section already but in case you haven’t, it may be very helpfulMoving WordPress :).
I can hardly wait. Movies, huh?
Promising.