And to leave Hubmans Hangout behind.

I think.

Okay, not really, I’m just thinking about changing where I’m at on the blogosphere.

Since I migrated Hubmans Hangout from Blogger to WordPress.com on January 4 2009 I’ve been very happy with WordPress, much more so that I was with Blogger.  But I think I’ve outgrown this platform and it’s time to purchase my own domain and move to WordPress.org.

What does that mean for you, my (hopefully) faithful readers? Not much, except that the url that you bookmark/have in your blogroll/subscribe to in a feed reader would need to be updated.

So why make the move?

WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to edit the code for the template unless you pay for the $15 upgrade, but that would only allow me to edit the CSS code, not any HTML code.  The annual fee to have my blog hosted elsewhere is less than that.

A ton of plug-ins would become available.  WordPress.com-hosted blogs are not compatible with anything that requires Java script, limiting what I can do.

I can post videos, without having to pay a storage space upgrade.  So that would mean home videos

Of course, there would be some downsides.  The dip in blog traffic wouldn’t be that big of deal- I’d leave this up blog up for a while and have it automatically redirect to the new URL, plus I expect some of my blog friends would help publicize my move. At least, I hope they would, if I asked nicely

My biggest concern would be migrating all of the content from this blog to the new one.  I have 465+ posts, almost 6000 comments, over 500 uploaded pictures, etc.  I’d hate to buy a domain, get everything set up, only to learn that not everything comes over when I export the content of this blog to the new domain.

Oh, I just thought of something else- what would happen with all of the permalinks?  Yikes!

Does anyone have any experience with moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org and can help answer some questions for me? I’d greatly appreciate it!

Obviously, I have a bit to think about before I commit to making this change…

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In other news, remember this post from back in November, about a romp I had in a hotel room with a fun and sexy friend of mine? No? Well, click the link and read it, I’ll wait…

I’m seeing this friend again today and this time, Veronica is coming with me.

Did I mention that this friend has never been with a woman before?

And I’m bringing the camera

I’d suggesting coming back on Saturday and/or Sunday, I suspect that we’ll have some details to share…