Migrating to Posterous

This morning I finished migrating my blog to Posterous.

The blog was originally a self hosted WordPress blog. This worked pretty well. However it may seem strange being an IT guy but I was getting tired of applying updates to WordPress and some of the plug-ins I was using. I wanted to move to a more simpler system. Something which meant I would spend the time writing on the blog rather than messing with themes and plug-ins!

Posterous makes it so easy. I like the fact I do not have to mess with a theme. I like how clean it looks and how easy it is. In fact I like pretty much everything about it. The import from WordPress took about 30 seconds - very cool.

But the best way to test technology is to use it. So I have moved the entire blog and domain over to Posterous. This could be a genius move or a total disaster (I hope it is not the latter). If it all goes well I may even think of using it to run the new ServerTastic blog I have planned.

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Oct 01, 2009

Daniel Honigman said...

How has it worked out for you so far? Do you regret the switch at all?

Andy Gambles said...

No regrets at all. Migrated all my blogs to posterous. In fact I am a little unhappy they have now launched themes as it means I will end up spending ages customizing :).

I hear ya. I think I may stick with Wordpress for now, but I'll still use Posterous for quick hits/what I'm reading/seeing/etc.

Thanks!

Oct 08, 2009

S S Yap said...

how do you do it? from self-hosted Wordpress to Posterous. I am also an IT guy. I rather concentrate on writing content but tweaking the tool. Thanks in advance

@S S Yap I used the Posterous import tool at http://posterous.com/import works a treat. The bonus was I already used the /post-name URL structure so inbound links still worked fine.

Andy Gambles