I just wanted to write a quick post about moving the blog and the problems I still have. Overall, I’m glad I made the switch because I have been able to do a lot that I wanted to do (including adding Twitter Tools) that I wouldn’t have been able to do on wordpress.com. I have had a lot of problems moving from the wordpress.com pages to my own hosting provider. I think a lot of this has to do with features that wordpress.com has aren’t in the base install and I’m still struggling to find the missing pieces.

1. My tags are messed up - If I haven’t fixed it yet you can see that my tag pool is full of numbers instead of useful tags. I tried the import three times and every time they imported like this. I haven’t been able to find an explanation on how to fix this but I’m planning on going through every post and cleaning them up.
2. None of my uploads were imported - I’m really mad about this because I have to upload all my files again. This does give me the chance to try out a new plug-in I have downloaded that uses Amazon-S3 instead of the web server to store the files.
3. My post aren’t showing up on the tag browser - wordpress.com has this great page where you can monitor and subscribe to a specific tag whenever a blog is posted with that tag. My old blog showed up on it but the new blog isn’t. I’m not sure if this is something that just takes a couple days or if I need to do something to the configuration of my page. I really hope that this isn’t a wordpress.com only feature.

I’m going to write a post about how I set up the blog and all the cool plug-ins I have found when I have a little more time. I would recommend that if you are thinking about moving to a managed host do it now instead of later.