Could’nt find any plugins option on my Wordpress dashboard in order to create a back-up of my Wordpress database: step 1 in Maria Langer’s guide to transferring my Wordpress hosted blog to Godaddy: Was able to create an XML file through the export option, but that was about it.
Resigned to the fact that there’s generally no easy way into a good thing, I returned to my PHP and MySQL book: Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL by Hugh E. Williams and David Lane. After reading through the first three chapters of useful, but not at all interest provoking chapters on variables, string literals, expressions, operators, functions, and regular expressions, I made it to the chapter, “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5. I must say, constructors and destructors are much more fun.
My workspace is a bit warm, and, despite the new level of interest I have for my reading material, I’m still fighting my tendency to fall asleep. In order to break my nodding pattern, I’m stopping to record my meager progress.
Next chapter: SQL and MySQL!
So, thanks to the instruction of a few of the many kind people in the opensource community, I’m writing this post via a paid-for host.
So, why did I think paying for this was a good thing? Ah yes . . . formatting freedom, and the option to show the ourlinktoyou URL without a second-source name. This experience will help me set up the most professional image possible for my business clients for whom blogging is a great feature, but not the main focus of their web interface objective.
Though, if I were just setting up the blog for my own private use, I would stick with the free Wordpress-hosted option. Not only is it free, but it seems to be a well respected blogging community. A professional blogger’s community.
I’m following the instructions that Maria Langer published last September about how to move your Wordpress blog from Wordpress.com to a Godaddy host. Afterward, I’m hoping my choice to use Wordpress’s Sandbox skin will prove to have been helpful in streamlining the CSS update process, allowing me to easily make my blog page look like the rest of ourlinktoyou.
Currently, I’m reading Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL by Williams and Lane. It’s an O’Reilley. This is my first time reading through it, and it’s new material for me. When I’m finished, I expect to be able to, among other things, host this blog on my own server as opposed to Wordpress.com.
Ourlinktoyou.com has entered the bloggosphere!