Gavin Baker » self hosted blog http://gbake.com tactile jazz a blog about discovery, curiosity, marketing, social media and technology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:26:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Making the move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org http://gbake.com/making-the-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/ http://gbake.com/making-the-move-from-wordpresscom-to-wordpressorg/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:44:00 +0000 Gavin Baker http://gbake.com/?p=113 Posted in bloginternettechnology

So my first foray into blogging was over at Tactile Jazz, it was a a free site run on wordpress.com.  It served me well as I started to learn the ins and outs of of the blogosphere.  But as I learned more, I wanted to experiment more and while wordpress.com is super easy to get [...]]]> Posted in bloginternettechnology

So my first foray into blogging was over at Tactile Jazz, it was a a free site run on wordpress.com.  It served me well as I started to learn the ins and outs of of the blogosphere.  But as I learned more, I wanted to experiment more and while wordpress.com is super easy to get up and running, it wasn’t flexible enough for me. e.g. no flash or javascript supported widgets, or super cool themes

So I sent a quick message over to my friend Scott asking for some help and advise and he said no problemo.  He made some techno-magic happen and 15 minutes later I was opening up my macbook to start installing WordPress and then jumping into the wonderful world of themes, plugins, widgets and that special sauce called FTP.

Props to Scott for being a great guy to help me get up and running, and enduring many questions over IM.

I’m still tweaking things around here so keep an eye out for changes.   I’m also open to any suggestions for must have plugins and for any of you wordpress guru’s if you see something amiss just holler at me.  I’m always looking to improve.

- Gavin

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