This is mainly just a test, but if I did it right, my posts on my old TumbleLog should look nearly identical to the posts on The Kyle File. I notice that even the subscription links for the feed and e-mail subscriptions on Tumblr still work as expected, because I haven’t yet decided to replace Feedburner with my self-hosted feed. I may test that shortly to see whether or not e-mail subscriptions will still work using the form on the main page if I switch to the standard follow button plugin. The only problem I may have with that is that my e-mails may not go out at the same time, or may be formatted differently, but that isn’t really a big issue at this point.
Just testing this gnome-blog desktop posting app. It looks quite useful, although I may need to categorize my posts from the website or the phone, as I see no category listing here. There may possibly be a later version than this one though, as the AUR package is orphaned. I may adopt this one if I find it useful.
The Kyle File's face lift is now complete, and all features are implemented. Reading and following my posts about all kinds of subjects is now easier than ever, and it is even easier for me to post all kinds of random ramblings to this nice little webspace. Although the most noticeable changes appear to be cosmetic, I am now making full use of a self-hosted WordPress installation on my own VPS, complete with plugins that have imported every post I ever made to my TumbleLog, automatically publishes my posts to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, with more to come in the future hopefully, and even keeps the same Feedburner subscription link I had. The most important changes I am introducing include the much more flexible and nicer-looking theme, the software freedom that comes from using free and open source code and the killer WordPress Android app, which works extremely well with Talkback on Gingerbread and up, and makes writing blog posts from my phone almost as easy as texting. Oh, and I guess I should mention that it isn’t in any way owned or controlled by Yahoo, or even Google, with the exception of the Feedburner feed, which I could replace at any time. I have also added some additional quick share buttons, and the ability to “love” or “hate” my posts, which is something that I almost had on Tumblr, but has been reimplemented and improved here. Enjoy my better blog, and don’t hesitate to let me know what you think of me or my posts in the comments or with the “love it!” and “hate it!” buttons. And as always, feel free to rip anything you like and call it yours, as my original posts are still in the public domain as always.
So I've been playing around with Wordpress off and on for a couple of years in a rather half-hearted attempt to move my blog from Tumblr to my own VPS. Well, I finally started playing with it seriously over the last couple of days, and found that I was able to import all my posts into my new blog, which is now hosted on my own DigitalOcean VPS. After taking care of some theming and plugin customizations and rewriting my pages, I feel like The Kyle File powered by Wordpress is now ready to see the light of day. I have completed the migration of the domain name's DNS settings and edited the Feedburner details for the feed, so everything should just work mostly as it always did. Please note that if you have been following me on Tumblr, I will make every attempt to keep it updated as well, so my posts will still show up on your dashboard. However, thekyle.tk* will always bring you to my shiny new blog powered by Wordpress.
A special thanks goes out to my server provider, DigitalOcean. They are featuring a new free/open source blogging platform called Ghost, which may just give me the kick I need to move my blog off Tumblr, which is now owned and controled by Yahoo, onto my own server. DigitalOcean is even offering $10 promotional credits to pay for a new 512MB RAM/20GB hdd server for 2 months using promo code SSDGHOST10 when setting up an account.