Onlydarksets

I pulled the trigger and moved the site.  The WP.org plugins are just too freaking cool.  Here are the “must haves” that I have found: WordPress.com stats Google XML sitemaps – generate sitemaps automatically Akismet – block spam comments WPTouch iPhone Theme Add to Any – share posts in over 100 different ways

So apparently it’s not that simple to get out from under the thumb of WordPress.com. I want to use a custom domain name and my own hosting instead of onlydarksets.wordpress.com, but I would like to retain my Google/Yahoo/Live search rankings. I had hoped throwing a little cash at it would do the trick, but apparently [...]

The problem is that you lose all of your search indexing if you just export it and start at your own domain.  However, here is a good writeup on the steps to avoid that.  It’s pretty simple if you’re willing to spend $10. Basically, you buy a domain and host it through WordPress.com for a [...]

I was having trouble with the header tags (<h2>, etc.) all showing up as the same size with the old theme.  This new one flows the text much better.  See the DTB guide (which I just updated a little bit) for an example.

I’ve been putting off upgrading a site I help maintain from WordPress 2.0 to 2.5 (2.6.1, actually), because I just didn’t have the time.  I still don’t have the time, but the site got “tagged” by spammers for some sort of injection hack, so, no time like the present. Total time (including backing up the [...]