Comments on: Follow-up to Moving from WordPress.com to Self-Hosted

By: Sdott Elkin

Sdott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:40:40 +0000

@Michael - Thanks a lot! EasyTube was really close. It wants it in the format of [youtube:URL] (using a colon instead of an equal sign).

That was easy enough to edit in the plugin.

Thanks!

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:32:09 +0000

@Scott - Whoops! My bad. It’s EasyTube.

By: Sdott Elkin

Sdott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:59:57 +0000

@Michael:

The only thing I find mentionning the “EasyPress plugin” is this page!

Can you point me in the right direction?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:12:35 +0000

@Scott - try the EasyPress plugin.

By: Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:55:33 +0000

How do you move over all your youtube videos?

Wordpress puts them in a format of

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgsaYQE9Sg]

which a self hosted blog doesn’t understand.

Suggestions?

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:23:48 +0000

@ Cozmo - Thanks for commenting! No matter your choice, you will be faced with compromises. Whether you find them acceptable or not… that’s a different matter! I am unwilling to tolerate the compromises I would have to make in ownership and control in order to have a free-hosted blog, but others feel differently.

By: Cozmo

Cozmo — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:55:57 +0000

There is something to be said about having something hosted for you though. Having your own domain is great and vital IMO, but having to update your copy of wordpress every time there’s a new release is no fun. There has to be a good compromise.

By: Mad

Mad — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:08:47 +0000

@Michael, You are most welcome. The value from blogging is the sharing of experience, including those of the readers which when shared as meaningful comments greatly improves the original post.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:15:00 +0000

I’ll be doing the opposite soon. I’m going from self hosted to wordpress.com. But that’s only if I can’t renew my domain name.

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:29:17 +0000

Thanks for highlighting these comments. I’d also like to thank everyone for providing all of this valuable feedback. On the original post, I inquired about re-directing from your old blog to your new blog. This was my biggest concern before I moved this myself, and the comments from the post really helped me out and spelled out my options. So, thanks again!