🔗 Absolutely Do Not Change Your Blogging Platform
In this post, Matt talks about the various blogging platforms he’s used over the years, what he learned from it, and why you shouldn’t do the same thing.
A couple of days ago, I was reading Manu’s latest edition of People and Blog, in which he interviewed Andrea Contino.
During the interview, Andrea linked to this post by Matt (who owns another blog that I regularly read and recommend you do too). Anyway, Matt’s post is about not changing your blogging platform, which I do on the regular; the most recent of which was just a couple weeks ago.
While I agree with Matt in principle, I think it’s ok to switch blogging platform, as long as your URLs don’t change. When I change platform, I try to make sure that my URLs don’t change, and for anything that does change, like the link to my RSS feed for example, I make sure there’s redirects in place so nothing changes for my readers. Matt quite rightly mentions this in his post, to be fair.
Once I’ve finished a migration, I then keep a very close eye on my 404 logs to see what’s failed and if I need to either fix any links, or introduce more redirects that I hadn’t thought of.
Either way, this is a great post by Matt. Go read it. Make sure you check out People and Blogs too - there’s some fantastic interviews on there so far.