One of the reason why I changed my blog address was because I had an initial plan to leave WordPress totally and move to Tumblr.
First of all, I’m sick of being boycotted from all the social websites such a FB and YouTube.
There are easy, fast, straight forward links to and fro YouTube or FB. If you wanna share a YouTube link, all you need to do is to click “Share” from the video and there’s an immediate link to your Tumblr.
But there isn’t any direct link to WordPress. And worse of all, WordPress don’t even recognize YouTube’s ordinary URL. You have to select the “long-link” which gives you a longer URL to be able to post the videos.
It’s quite a lot of hassle.
And almost all the other websites allows you to “Share” directly to your Tumblr account. I’m just so jealous.
And I wanted a new name, so the timing of my jealousy/frustration couldn’t be better.
Until I went to google “Switching from WordPress to Tumblr” that’s when I realize I shouldn’t.
I had wanted to find out ways to transfer all my almost 800 entries to Tumblr.
The search results showed mainly the other way round – “switching from Tumblr to WordPress” – and only a few showed what I was looking for.
So I started reading all the reviews and it seems that serious bloggers were all opting for WordPress instead, citing that Tumblr is really more for people who wanted a lot of interactions, photos, videos, and minimal words.
For long posts bloggers, WordPress is actually a better choice and all the options/themes/widgets/etc are actually much easier to navigate and all.
So, I’m back to square one.
And do you know that WordPress offers so many options just to change the name of the blog?
You can actually:
1) change the name of the entire blog
– meaning to say changing ayecandy to candeely but also means that if visitors were to go ayecandy, they will not be able to access as it’s already non-existent
2) transfer the entire blog to a new blog
– which was what I did and still being able to inform visitors from the old blog about the move
3) redirect all visitors to the new blog automatically
– most awesome option obviously but need money
I don’t know what can Tumblr offer though.
But anyway since I’m actually more comfortable here, I might as well just stay. Though I must say I’m sad to leave the ayecandy blog because I’ve really maintain it for like almost 2 years.
But okay, I like the new address more :)
Okay great it’s almost 2am and I’m still so awake writing away.