Making the Move to Wordpress
For the last three and half years, I have called TypePad home. TypePad has hosted Micro Persuasion since it launched in April 2004. Since then I have uploaded nearly 5,000 posts and, for the most part, the Six Apart platform has handled it all with very few glitches. I even once told Six Apart founder Mena Trott that TypePad changed my life. It did.
TypePad is a terrific platform for anyone starting a blog. However, lately it has been leaving me wanting more. I want a platform that is quicker; one where I can dabble. More importantly, I have become fed up having to constantly clear this site of spam.
Wordpress has unbeatable spam fighting features, thanks to its Akismet plug in. So, in the next few days or weeks, I plan to move my blog over to Wordpress.com. I want to stay on a hosted platform for simplicity's sake. However, there in lies the dilemma. I can easily move the domain, content and comments. However, I will lose all of the permalinks.
So here are my options. I would love your opinion.
Option A: Migrate all of the content and legitimate comments (the blog is unfortunately full of spam) over to Wordpress and lose all all permalinks.
Option B: Start fresh on Wordpress. This entails just moving the micropersuasion.com domain over. Under this scenario, the archives and all of the image links will remain here in tact for posterity but at the steverubel.typepad.com/micropersuasion URL (the "masked" domain). This too breaks all of the permalinks but at least leaves things in tact.
Option C: Nuke it all and start completely from scratch on Wordpress.
Option D (why do I sound like Michael Keaton in "Mr. Mom"?): Stay here and fight the spammers.
There are other options but they are more complicated and I want to make this as simple as possible. As always, I am eager to hear your thoughts. Perhaps I am missing something.
