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Old School Moving to WordPress

June 19th, 2008

5 Comments

I’ve decided to move this blog from blogger to WordPress. If you decide to blog one day, just start with WordPress. Makes life easier. Question my other ideas but trust me on this :)

Reasons for changing, in no particular order:
1. Blogger has a very very very bad comment system which led me to using a 3rd party system which I’m not fully happy with.
2. All the widgets and extras you see were the result of me hacking my own site.
3. Much more widespread use, functionality and features.
4. Better themes to play around with.
5. I get to be in control of data without worrying about Google banning me.

While this blog is still young I’ll try to move it now rather than try to move a mess 1 year later or so.

More importantly, thank you to all the readers and visitors who find this place interesting. I’m no Oscar winner but it’s you that make blogging fun and challenging.

I’ll provide more updates as the move progresses. You may also have to resubscribe to the new address, but we’ll see how it goes first.

P.S.
I’ve joined a new investing network focused on dividend investing, value investing and a long-term buy and hold philosophy. Check it out as it is a great collaboration and I’m excited about the great content it will contain. The Dividend Network.

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5 Comments

  1. - doug

    Wordpress is great! Been using it for years. The learning curve is not that steep, there are lots of great templates around and you can do a lot of really cool stuff with it.

    I also have enjoyed Old School Value for the past 5-6 months. I hope you’ll consider visiting my own site.

  2. - J. Jun

    Hi Doug,

    I like your site and especially the nice and clean header. Did you design that yourself?

  3. - stockmanmarc

    Jae

    Is it very difficult to change over from Blogger to Wordpress? I just started my blog about a month ago. Discovered Wordpress after the fact.

    Thanks, STOCKMANMARC

  4. - Jae Jun

    To make the switch, you’d have to buy a domain, find a good host but then once that is set up, the learning curve is very easy and in no time, you’ll be kicking yourself for not having started with it sooner.

    I switched around the 4 month period, so that meant I had to fix many links, post formats etc etc

    Put up some ads and affiliation that dont get in the way of reading and the site pays for itself for many many years.

  5. - stockmanmarc

    Thanks Jae!

    appreciate the info

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