Hey guys, just wanted to apprise you of an eminent development. I am going to try to move this blog to http://undeception.com, which is basically the same URL without the “wordpress”, with or without the www. I am doing this mostly so that I can customize some aspects of the site at my discretion. I’m moving over to a wordpress.org blog that requires a lot more manual coding than wordpress.com blogs, so there will doubtless be a few glitches here and there.
I’m going to post on both sites for a few more days. The biggest downside to switching is that I won’t get much visitor traffic by way of stumbling through wordpress.com by searches, so it’s important that, if I want to maintain or increase the current number of visitors, I will have to do something to make the new site show up on Google’s and other site’s searches. Until I see my page show up on Google, I will post on both URLs.
I would therefore like to request that my regulars (both of you 
) update your feeds and especially your blogrolls and begin visiting my new site instead of this one. Please post your comments on that one instead, as well. You’ll notice a couple of my already implemented customizations in the comments section:
1) Below the comment entry block there is an as-you-type comment preview that shows what your comment is going to look like, even giving you a visualization of any html tags you use!
2) Also below the comment entry block there is a checkbox that is supposed to subscribe you to subsequent comments via the email address you enter; you will/should be able to manage your subscriptions and unsubscribe whenever you wish (I know I can manage it at your request, anyway). This plugin is in need of testing, so let me know how it goes, if you don’t mind.
Right now the site looks virtually identical to this one, although I’m likely to experiment with different themes soon. Also, I plan in the next day or so to map the last few comments on this blog and not the other one so that the other site is a complete mirror to this one and can supersede it.
Oh, and by the way, I’m not cross-listing this particular post. it’s my last undeception.wordpress.com exclusive!
Thanks for
No need to synch this comment… I’ll be very interested to get your comments on how the installation and move went. I’ve been considering a similar transition, perhaps when my year of “domain mapping” through wordpress.com expires. Feel free to respond by email if you don’t want to clog this “old site” with comments.
P.S. Blogroll updated.
Thanks, ElShaddai. I will tell you that so far it’s been less trouble than I expected!
Did you go through one of WordPress’s recommended host partners or did you have your own hosting account already set up? I would have tried it out by now except the hosting account I have (for another site) is a personal account without database functionality.
I use justfree.com. It really is free, and will probably suit my needs for quite a while. It came recommended by two blogging friends (Josh and Kevin — check them out). It does have a few file type limitations (so far I have run into a block on .jpeg and .ico files), but this has not limited my friends, and doubt it will begin to anytime soon.
Thanks for the link, Steve. I’ve set up an account and am trying it with one of my semi-private blogs. Hopefully there are no major strings attached to “free”… if not, I’ll transfer some of my other sites there!
I ran across the following note about justfree.com’s service:
This was from a year ago… have you experienced any of this with your blog on the new platform?
Yes, now that you mention it. I think I have had some problems with plugins because of that email issue. It didn’t occur to me that this might have been the problem, but I tried another free host and did not have any problems whatsoever. So allow me to recommend that other free host!
x10hosting.com
I tried this one out with some of those same plugins, with no errors. So this may be the better free option. I myself might be switching when I get a chance. So if my new one’s out for a few hours, that’s probably why
Thanks a lot for posting this! It helped tremendously!
Thanks for the new link – I’ll have to try that out too!