@herself I ended up hosting a wordpress network, with my domain hosting my main blog, and then a separate wp site at domain/microblog. That way it was easy to theme the same etc but separate RSS feeds and I didn’t need to worry about categorising posts or anything
@herself Personally, I push everything through to my timeline but the easiest way to separate things out would be by category. I had a microblog category at the beginning and used the RSS feed from that but it made sense for me not to exclude anything.
@davew @colinwalker Cool, thanks! I have a wordpress.com blog which is much less nimble to work with. I've meant to do something more with it but as it's fifteen years old it's getting harder and harder to summon up the motivation to move it all somewhere else!
@herself I’ve been learning about the requirements for a switch from Wordpress.com to a hosted Wordpress site but haven’t yet uncovered to step-by-step process to transfer the domain and then the content. This should enable much more scope than Wordpress.com but I need to climb the learning curve. I’ll be interested to see how you get on.
@herself Just as another variation of what @colinwalker used to do, I send all my “Status” category posts through (which are, by and large, the prototypical no-title short posts, and using the WP “status” post-format), but I also have a tag, “microblog”, that I apply to non-Status-category, “standard” post-format longer, more traditional posts I want to send through to Micro.blog using the tag’s RSS feed. Since I’ve switched to this method, I think I may have sent everything through anyway, but I like that I have the option of excluding things if I want to, and that I have to intentionally decide to send through a non-Status post rather than my blog defaulting to “spamming” M.b with every last thing I post ;-)
@derekpeden ulp! No pressure! Hehe. I’m not sure if or when I’ll take the plunge. I’m sure it isn’t but it all feels a bit hard at the moment.
@herself I actually finally got things working on my site where my microblog posts live in their own section of my site and don't show up on my home page or in my main feed. It took some work - initially I accidentally was unknowingly filtering out any post from appearing on micro.blog at all. I wrote about my setup on Monday: My Micro.blog Setup With WordPress
@40Tech it sounds like there are quite a few ways of integrating with mb, which is cool. I think I’m starting to figure out how my micro.blog and regular blog can exist together. Thanks for sharing your notes on the process!
@herself No problem. I’ve been meaning (for a couple of months now) to write a post updating how I’m using/structuring my blog for Micro.blog (which has changed substantially since I first wrote about in December) but keep getting distracted writing about other things… :-P
@herself this is a great conversation...I’m still at the evaluation stage, I’d like to move micro.blog content to my site, but all? Just some? Things to think about and it’s good to see the work that others have done, blazing the trail
@herself I have both hosted on my website and fed into Micro.Blog, but only my micro blog feed is cross posted and they are separated on my blog rather than intermingled. That said, both are shown on the home page.
@herself Yep, definitely several ways. We have a discussion going on right now in the Mac Power Users podcast Facebook group on this very issue, and have talked about a few different ways to do it.
@donmacdonald me too! I think bringing everything over might be overkill (and do I really want to? There’s something so nice about a fresh start).
@rosemaryorchard I like this approach. The micro stuff as a subset of the über-blog (or is that ur-blog?). That could work really well.
@herself This thread is very interesting, as I am trying to figure out how to set up my MB too. I'm tempted to use my existing WP blog + categories, but that is also the blog for my podcast and I don't know whether I should do that. Or maybe I should spend money on a separate installation of WP? But if I'm spending money, I feel like to should be spending that on MB-hosted blog - to support MB. But WP has more tools to fiddle with (and I could post using Ulysses)... and round and round we go. In any case, I'm very interested to read what everyone's set up is.
@vishae I want to know what everyone else is doing too. :) Personally I’ve got a Wordpress.com blog that I pay to set up my domain on, and a hosted micro.blog with a similar name. Not really by design. It just...happened.
@herself I signed up for a hosted blog here, as I thought I had to. Don't really use it, as I soon realised I couldn't tinker with it, or use it to learn anything much. I have some other blogs, one of which is my main one, hosted elsewhere. In order to learn about the Indieweb I got shared hosting with Dreamhost, installed WordPress and set it up on a blog. subdomain. I haven't used the main domain yet, still deciding what to do with that. So far I've mostly used the blog for short posts to here and I've set the default type to "status" in WordPress. I haven't ruled out longer posts on that site, but more likely they will stay where they are, with the rss feed going to Mb. It's a learning process for me...
@herself I have them divided into two really, I could easily merge them (and at some point in the not too distant future I will offer an "all" feed).