If you follow my personal Twitter account, @JayDolan, you know I’ve been wrestling with tumblr, and recently, WordPress. Tumblr is the blogging software that runs The Anti-Social Media. I love tumblr, but it’s starting to prove it’s time to move on.
There are a lot of aspects why I love tumblr.
- tumblr is dead simple to use. You log-in and it presents anything you could want to post and makes it as absolutely easy as possible. You don’t have to think, you just click and go from there.
- tumblr is pretty. There are a lot of awesome designers on tumblr, and they make lots of gorgeous themes. If the free themes don’t suit you, there are even a bunch of great and relatively cheap (under $50) premium themes.
- tumblr is free. Tumblr pays for all your hosting. So, unless you use an actual domain (like theantisocialmedia.com, for example), you don’t pay anything. It’s an easy way to blog quickly and without having to worry about setting up your server.
Still, tumblr has been driving me nuts recently:
- My scheduled posts are never posted on time. You can imagine how horrifying it is to see something you wanted posted at 8 am doesn’t show up until noon or later.
- When my scheduled posts do appear, they are posted as private. Blogging for myself isn’t any fun.
- It’s really hard to add new features to the site. Granted, I don’t want to add a lot of clutter. I hate cluttered sites. But I hate messing with code and destroying the entire site even more.
So, I’ll be transferring the blog to WordPress. I’m not a WordPress fan, but it will solve the vast majority of my problems.
I just want to post and share my content. I want the site to look exactly like the preview when I install it, and then just need to insert the code and user ids that are necessary to make certain things run. I’m not a designer. Wordpress is nice, but with great power comes great insanity. It took me six hours to get my personal site going on WordPress, and its not near the exact way I want it.
What does this change mean for you? If you’re subscribed via RSS, you shouldn’t see much of a difference at all. Otherwise you’ll be seeing a new site soon. It should look awesome. It should do awesome things. It won’t solve world hunger, but it will make me happy, and then we can keep talking about how crazy social media is.
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