on tinkering (or, when to admit defeat)
So, over the weekend, I decided to quit with the procrastination and make the switch to WordPress. It was all too easy, really. I managed to install WordPress in a flash, import all my content from my old Blogger blog, find a template I was pretty happy with… And then I tried to fix my feed situation so I could still use my existing FeedBurner feed.
I worked through the setup info on the WordPress help site, I Googled, and I installed the plug in… But no matter what I did, I couldn’t make it work.
So I did something I pretty much never do: I asked for help. At BlogOz, someone mentioned that Ninja Blog Setup are great for back-end work. So I emailed them. And (on a Sunday, no less) I got an email back from them in about 20 minutes. The problem was something silly that I’d caused (extraneous text in my permalink structure). I’m not sure that I would have noticed that. But the Ninja Blog man did, and he fixed it, fast. And, it was cheap.
he moral of this story: Next time a technical problem gets the better of me, I know who I’ll be getting in touch with. Sure, I’m all for learning new skills, but seriously… three hours on a Sunday afternoon could be spent on so many other things. And sometimes it just takes a pair of fresh eyes to pick up something silly.
Best of all, they told me what the problem was and how they fixed it, so I did learn something, after all.
