{"id":4,"date":"2011-03-26T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-03-26T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T22:52:39","slug":"moving-back-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/moving-back-to-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Back to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m moving my blog back to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> after a couple of years on <a href=\"http:\/\/ishmilok.blogspot.com\/\">BlogSpot<\/a>. One reason I&#8217;m moving back is that my involvement with the <a href=\"http:\/\/grwebdev.org\/\">Grand Rapids Web Development Group<\/a> has revealed that WordPress is much more flexible and better looking than Blogspot. I&#8217;ll be able to more easily style my blog to my liking, and add I&#8217;ll be able to add a few simple features I&#8217;ve been pining for. There is a lot of WordPress support in the Grand Rapids area, so I&#8217;ll be able to find help when I need it. I&#8217;m also moving from the ambiguous Ishmilok to one of my favorite though mostly unused domains (ClusterBleep) with the hope that it will become the center of my online presence.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-26-at-1.41.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5\" title=\"Stuffin' my face at the HTML5 Meeting of GrWebDev\" src=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-26-at-1.41.11-PM-295x300.png\" alt=\"Stuffin' my face at the HTML5 Meeting of GrWebDev\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-26-at-1.41.11-PM-295x300.png 295w, http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Screen-shot-2011-03-26-at-1.41.11-PM.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuffin&#39; my face at the HTML5 Meeting of GrWebDev<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the reasons I haven&#8217;t been blogging much lately is that I find BlogSpot annoying. The editor is annoying, the style is restrictive, and adding photos and videos is fiddly. I think this move to WordPress will alleviate some of my annoyances and I&#8217;ll get back into the happy blogging spirit. Along with my participation in many\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Ubuntu Michigan Local Community\" href=\"http:\/\/loco.ubuntu.com\/teams\/ubuntu-michigan\">local<\/a> <a title=\"Grand Rapids Linux User Group\" href=\"http:\/\/grlug.org\/\">user<\/a> <a title=\"West Michigan Linux User Group\" href=\"http:\/\/wmlug.org\/\">groups<\/a>, I&#8217;ve also taken a leadership role in <a title=\"BarCamp Grand Rapids\" href=\"http:\/\/barcampgr.org\/\">a<\/a> <a title=\"Grand Rapids Python Users Group\" href=\"http:\/\/grpug.org\/\">few<\/a> <a title=\"Grand Rapids Web Development Group\" href=\"http:\/\/grwebdev.org\/\">other<\/a> <a title=\"Conga West Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/conga-wm.org\">organizations<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to use this space to spread the word about these things more frequently and at greater length.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I won&#8217;t create a big mess when I transfer my old posts. If I do, I\u00c2\u00a0apologize\u00c2\u00a0in advance. I&#8217;ll add this blog to the <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.grpug.org\/\">various<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.grlug.org\/\">planets<\/a> I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/ossmichigan.org\/\">involved<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.grwebdev.org\/\">with<\/a> after I have the old posts moved and a I have a few new ones up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m moving my blog back to WordPress after a couple of years on BlogSpot. One reason I&#8217;m moving back is that my involvement with the Grand Rapids Web Development Group has revealed that WordPress is much more flexible and better &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/moving-back-to-wordpress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,20,5,14,7,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grlug","category-grpug","category-internet","category-planet-ubuntu-users","category-python","category-tech","category-ubuntu-michigan","category-wmlug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}