seanlunsford.com has moved (and so have I)

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I’ve just finished the move I wrote about,1 so it seems appropriate to officially announce the move of my blog as well, though the new seanlunsford.com has been live for a while now.

TL;DR: The important part about subscribing to the new blog is in the last paragraph. Feel free to skip down there.

I’ve been using WordPress since my first post went up on this blog in 2012, but when I launched my other site in 2014 it was using a blogging platform called Ghost and hosted on a server I rent and manage. Pretty much since then I’ve wanted to migrate this blog to Ghost and consolidate both on that same server. But in the past several months I’ve finally made the transition piecemeal, as I’ve had a moment here or there: migrating the old posts and images to a new instance of Ghost, pointing the seanlunsford.com domain name at the new site (and reverting WordPress to the wordpress.com subdomain), and coding a new theme.2

The final piece was setting up email subscriptions with Ghost’s subscribers functionality and MailChimp. I didn’t have this last piece in place when I published my last post, so I pushed it live to both sites at the same time. Sometime last week I took a break from moving and got the email piece up and running,3 so I can now say that the move is complete.

I do have aspirations of starting to write more often again 4. But this will be the last post to WordPress. My main purpose in writing it – in addition to marking the occasion – is to notify subscribers to the old blog. Everyone who had subscribed with just an email address is already set up in the new system and is good to go. But most of my subscribers follow my blog through their WordPress accounts, and I have no way of migrating them. So if this describes you, and you are still interested in getting new posts in your inbox, head over to seanlunsford.com/subscribe.

  1. Except for those couple pieces of luggage the airline should be bringing by sometime today ↩
  2. I have to say I really like the way it turned out. I used the theme I created and maintain for The Dark Roast as a foundation, but made some visual changes and took cues from what I liked best in my customized WordPress theme. ↩
  3. Tinkering with servers and RSS feeds is a nice change from putting stuff into suitcases, boxes, and trash bags. ↩
  4. Though they may be no more than aspirations ↩

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