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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 07:19:14 JST Jay Baker

   Back when I was in harder times, a friend salvaged my website for me and I've been accessing it via WordPress ever since. But now I'm taking over full control of the domain and everything and it's complex; it seems like a good opportunity to start using another platform altogether. I'm intrigued by Ghost (largely due to its nifty newsletter audience approach) but wondering if I can switch my domain to them, plus import all my backdated WordPress blog posts from the last twenty (!) years, as I'd hate to lose that archive and context. Anyone have much insight? #blogging #websites #WordPress #Ghost #newsletter #AskFedi

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 07:27:28 JST Jay Baker

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     • Robert @ Tech Addressed

     @techaddressed Thanks, I appreciate that!

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     Robert @ Tech Addressed (techaddressed@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 07:27:29 JST Robert @ Tech Addressed

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     @MediaActivist I don't have a lot of experience with Ghost but I've been maintaining WordPress sites for people for years so if I can be of any help just let me know.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 16:30:46 JST Jay Baker

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     • Ivan Maljukanović 🏳️‍🌈

     @Imoptimal Thanks so much!

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     Ivan Maljukanović 🏳️‍🌈 (imoptimal@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 16:30:47 JST Ivan Maljukanović 🏳️‍🌈

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     @MediaActivist

     They have an official guide (plugin) on how to move the data from a #WordPress website to #Ghost CMS:

     https://ghost.org/docs/migration/wordpress/

     Haven't done it myself, but it looks quite straightforward.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 16:41:31 JST Jay Baker

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     @antiaall3s I access my dashboard on WordPress(.org) currently administrated by my friend, who I paid a very small amount of monthly money to in recent years and who is now handing it all back over to me (in case anything ever happened to them!) and the newsletter options haven't been great, plus many plugins I played with broke my website haha, so my friend had to keep bailing me out and fix it (via ftp, presumably - a very patient friend, I should add!). So yeah, Ghost looks like a safe option - and still non-profit and open source which are important to me and why I love WordPress so much! It'll be interesting after 20yrs on WordPress!

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     Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 16:41:33 JST Anti. 🐘

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     @MediaActivist Are you self-hosting a Wordpress blog or are you on Wordpress.com? I just saw, that Ghost also offers both these options. If the argument is the newsletter ability, this can also be done with wordpress through plugins. But i have to say, i personally don't use them.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 17:24:14 JST Jay Baker

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     • Anti. 🐘

     @antiaall3s Thank you! Yes, anytime! And I think my friend cited a few issues that could be faced by switching from their WordPress.org admin to a WordPress.com by myself that would be, admittedly, similarly challenging with Ghost yet enable me to start over a little and yet avoid breaking it in future haha. This page was pretty convincing (especially in their honest list of what WordPress is suited for compared to Ghost): https://ghost.org/vs/wordpress/ I'm really keen to avoid Substack type stuff and would love a simple newsletter subscription option on my own site with maybe an optional paid tier too.

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     Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 17:24:17 JST Anti. 🐘

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     @MediaActivist If your plan is to switch from a self-hosted set up to a hosted one, i personally think it would be much less trouble to switch to a wordpress.com blog. But the price differences might be something to look into. Like how much does it cost to remove adds, to have a custom URL and such. If you want, we can talk about it on Signal.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 21:06:40 JST Jay Baker

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     • Anti. 🐘

     @antiaall3s Haha yeah I wasn't expecting any objectivity at all from them; I was surprised by their honesty on some of that criteria! And that's a good idea, thanks! I'll do that now - so much help available on friendly Mastodon!

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     Anti. 🐘 (antiaall3s@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 21:06:42 JST Anti. 🐘

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     @MediaActivist Yeah, according to that list, Ghost does sound like a better deal. Even though it was published by ghost themselves. But maybe the best approach would be to talk to someone who has made the move from wp to ghost, how that went?