vega
vega
Appreciation for Micro.blog. v.hierofalco.net
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pratik
pratik

@vega any tips on how you made the transition?

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vega
vega

@pratik * Looked up reviews and prices of local webhosting providers that provided both domain registration and webhosting together, and were known for reliability and customer service. A local IT/tech forum had reviews of local providers; that was very helpful. * Registering the domain and buying webhosting is quite straightforward! * Know what to ignore in cPanel (lots of stuff there, most of them not relevant). At this stage, the only things relevant to me are the in-browser file upload manager, how to make subdomains, and how to make FTP accounts. * My webhost came with some "one-click install" CMS/webmastering packages in cPanel. I used that to install Wordpress on v.hierofalcon.net. It was very handy -- otherwise I would've downloaded the files from Wordpress.org and then uploaded to my subdomain via FTP, a more tedious process. * Export my blog files to v.hierofalcon.net. Check that everything exported properly, M.B is capturing my RSS feed, and everything works to satisfaction. Now I could cancel my M.B subscription.

So, getting a hosted domain and setting up a Wordpress blog was relatively straightforward and required only minimal interaction with cPanel at the beginning. Hope this helps!

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vega
vega

@vega @pratik Whoops, the formatting got stripped out from my reply; they were meant to be bullet points. (And apparently I still can't spell my own domain name correctly. =P)

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smokey
smokey

@vega I think the trick is making sure that there is a blank line between any prior text and the start of the bullet list, even though I think the syntax highlighting starts if there is not a blank line.

Foo * bar * baz

Baz

  • bar
  • foo
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smokey
smokey

@vega Also, that was a really great post.

I'm particularly interested in the export–import process; I don't believe I have seen any documentation on exporting posts from Micro.blog and then importing them into WordPress (would be a great thing to have in the wiki if it's not already in the Micro.blog help).

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pratik
pratik

@vega Thanks :) I've had self-hosted WP blogs for a while. I wanted to know more about how you posted on WP (title-less, format, category, etc.) and what themes you used on WP to display them as "micro blogs".

And to have them display on M.B, I'm guessing you just enter the blog's feed here.

I'm currently using a sub-domain alias to redirect my M.B. there but the content is still hosted on M.B. It's just $5 a month and hassle-free. Wondering if I should self-host but I know it comes with its share of 'hassles' and having done it in the past, I'm wondering if I should. Again. :)

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vega
vega

@pratik

Feed display on M.B - I followed <a href="http://help.micro.blog/2017/api-feeds/">these instructions</a> (bottom of the page) to ensure M.B is notified of updates. Just make sure that in WP > Settings > Reading that you allow search engines to index you, otherwise M.B won't update (which I found out the hard way!).

Themes and title-less posts - My current theme is a stopgap; I've yet to explore more elaborate formatting and separation of microblogs and longer posts. (Something to do on a rainy day!) Also, the M.B feed doesn't seem to be propagating emoji correctly in title-less microblogs (eg. my Now Listening posts don't show the music emoji on M.B but do on WP): not sure if this is a WP or M.B issue, it's something to troubleshoot.

Export/Import - There's an export function under M.B's "Posts" category. I just exported from there and imported the resulting XML file into WP; everything showed up including the pictures. It looks no different to exporting an XML file from WP itself, except that there are no tags/categories of course.

// @smokey

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pratik
pratik

@vega Thanks for that detailed reply.

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smokey
smokey

@vega Thanks for that info about the export functionality.

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manton
manton

@vasta @vega Thanks for the support! One of the most important goals from the beginning was to encourage more blogging, so very happy to hear that it helped. 🙂

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