So now I have a blog at work, a blog at Edublogs and a blog at home in addition to my taekwon-do blog which has been going for three years. Three of them (including this one) are powered by WordPress, and one (the longest running one) is powered by MoveableType although I just copied all its content into WordPress manually so I can play with presenting it separately. I also have my first blog at Bloki.
I really like using MoveableType even though I’ve never really tried too hard to play with the CSS and lay it out nicely. The only reason I moved to WordPress was that MoveableType introduced a licence fee just before I got around to installing it at work.
I still haven’t figured out how to set up multiple blogs on WordPress (although clearly it can be done :-)) and I am still working through “the loop” and all the template stuff (which is likely to be intimately related to setting up multiple blogs …)
The thing that really pisses me off is that there doesn’t seem to be an obvious way of moving posts from one blog to another. So I don’t want to overwrite my new home blog which I’ve just set up, but I want to import most of my work blog content into it.
And I’d like to move my taekwondo blog to WordPress because half the entries are now more related to teaching and learning than to taekwondo, and it seems a bit of a stretch to post to one blog, then link to it from another …
It looks like it might be quicker to do it manually post by post than to figure out how to automate it !! I also forgot about the three Blogger sites I have …
I originally posted this to Edublogs, but now I’ve copied it and edited at Wisebytes … which will get a bit complicated after a while. I guess I could write blog entries via email and post them to all three places – or I could just use RSS to feed everything into a single display. Of course, that’s what RSS is about, but it would mean I’d have to figure out what was being written to where, what should get aggregated to where and how it gets displayed … proving again that it is not technology that stands in the way of content management, but rather it is lack of clarity and purpose. D’OH!!