I’m a little up in arms about what to do with this site. I barely program any more in my free time. I want to do stuff, but I lack motivation. I have about 20 unfinished posts. By the time I get through, I don’t care to re-read or add the links I want to reference.
I’m also a little worried about WordPress. I don’t like it and I want to ditch it. However, I have a bunch of posts that get me some attention from Google. Is there a way to export my posts to static files?
On a more positive note, I got to use Django for a project at work. It’s an excellent product. Anyone developing webapps should try it, at least once. I might want to convert my site to Django CMS… dunno yet.
I hear you with the free time issue, I’ve got a lot of stuff I want to do, but it seems like I either don’t have time or am too tired when I do have the time.
Out of curiosity, why don’t you like WordPress?
Also, if you want to move content, the best way is to move your content to your new setup and then use 301-redirects to point your old URLs to your new ones. I’ve used them each time I’ve moved stuff around on my site.
A word of caution though, 301-redirects will pass on most of a URL’s page ranking, but not all of it. This usually wont matter, since you’ll rebound with additional links as time goes on, but if you have a #1 ranking for a competitive keyword, you might want to think twice, since #1 rankings typically get more than twice as many hits as #2 rankings. There was only ever one piece of content I didn’t move due to this concern, and even now I’m not sure my worries were that warranted, since the 301-redirects I’ve done so far haven’t seemed to have effected the PR of the content I’ve moved.
The only documented place I know of where this is discussed (the passing on of some, but not all of the PR for a URL with 301-redirects) is here:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/an-illustrated-guide-to-matt-cutts-comments-on-crawling-indexation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seomoz+%28SEOmoz+Daily+Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Sorry if this comment was a little long,
- Pat
Hey Pat,
The main thing I don’t like about WordPress is writing themes and plugins for it. The API is kinda silly sometimes, especially if you plan to use it as a CMS and not a blog, which I’ve had to do at work a few times.
I’m worried about their security practices. There are a bunch of exploits listed on Secunia that result from input not being sanitized… That’s rookie stuff. Passwords are stored with just plain md5 hashes, IIRC.
I also don’t really like the underlying platform anymore. It’s not really a fault of WordPress, but I’m not feeling so confident in the future of PHP — especially after they couldn’t decide on a way to add proper unicode support to the project.
But that’s basically it. It’s all contingent on me being not lazy though, so I might just tough it out.
Thanks for the article!