Hello my lovely readers!
I just wanted to let you know that lots of things are going on behind the scenes here. I am in theprocess of moving to WordPress. I’m very excited and super stressed out at the same time! I hope to have the changes finalised over the next few weeks. I’m doing the move myself and have never used WordPress before, so I apologise for any downtime or odd things you see as I make the move.
When it is all done I will have a lovely new site for you. It’s going to be mobile and tablet friendly and have a fresh new look. It’s got easy to navigate menus to make all my content easier to find. I apologise if the blog is a little quiet during this time, and if you’ve just popped in to see what’s happening, please connect with me on Instragram and see what I’m up to or browse the Recipes, Techniques or Tutorials indexes.
Fingers crossed I don’t break the internet in the process! If you’re already on WordPress, please tell me what your must have plugins are…there’s so many out there I don’t know where to start!
janelle of emmaline says
exciting!! I want to do that too. Good for you!
Mrs John says
Good luck! I’ll watch with interest. You’re much braver, but then infinitely more capable, than I am. I’ve yet to master my .com lol
Stephanie says
You going WordPress.com or WordPress.org. I am on .org
Definitely get askismet. Helps with the junk mail.
Good luck.
Stephanie says
You will need to get a good security one. Don’t go overboard with the plugins cause if you have a problem pinpointing it could be hard as sometimes it could be a plug in causing it.
A good backup plugin a must as well.
Jenya says
Good luck with the move!
abby @ thingsforboys says
thanks, good tips. Do you have recommendations for security and backup plugins?
Stephanie Lanzetti says
I actually have my blogs with wpengine.. You still have to have you blog hosted (I am with hostgator) but these guys look after all the security, caching etc. They add another layer on top.
I lost a blog last year and lost two years worth of stuff.. I just didn’t have the expertise to stop the problem I was having with my blogs.. A few WordPress sites got attacked last year..
Backup buddy is suppose to be a good one.. not sure of the security one – just google and you will find information.
There are other sites like wpengine, but it may be worth looking into.
abby @ thingsforboys says
Thank you Stephanie! I have so much reading to do.
Christine says
Oh that’s GREAT! 🙂 Unfortunately I am with Typepad and they do NOT make it easy to move away from them…..After all their downtime recently, I would if I could though! LOLL
abby @ thingsforboys says
none of them make it easy do they?! There is a typepad option in the WordPress.org importer, so you must be able to do it. I have no idea how complication the setup would be after the import though.
Christine says
I have been looking into it a bit BUT so far it all seems very complicated to achieve successfully ….I will check into it more thoroughly one day when I get the time BUT at this point it all sounds too overwhelming and complicated for me to tackle myself! LOLLL maybe i will just have to wait until i am rich enough to pay someone to do it for me! LOL
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