Sep 16 2008
Converting to WordPress
I was recently asked to convert a site to WordPress and I went ahead and did it at no charge, and then I started thinking that if I can do it as a favor for someone then I should really take the time to do it with my baby site (i.e. my first site and still my favorite to this day – onetimesone.com), so I spent the last week doing that.
Implementing the design into WordPress wasn’t the hard part, mostly because I’ve had some experience creating WordPress Themes, it’s been copying and pasting the hundreds of pages of content that’s been the most time consuming.
But it’s sooooo worth it! I had neglected this site for so long because it was just getting too annoying posting new reviews and interviews in html/php and then linking everything up by hand… the reviewers were writing faster than I could post things and so I just pretty much ignored the site for a very long time 
But now (after I catch up on some maintenance on some other sites) I can get back into things and hopefully get OTO rolling again. I still haven’t posted everything… I’m slowly working on it, and I still haven’t decided where to put the photo gallery or the fan sites which are separate issues in themselves… but I think this is a great site renovation and necessary for any site that’s going to be kept up regularly. Plus I owe it to all of the great contributors we’ve had!
I thought about doing it with some of my other sites that are doing fairly well (business-wise) but I’m not totally happy with all of the content on those (I hired some not-so-great writers and just kept that content up on those anyway since I’d paid for it) so I’ve also been purchasing some new domains to just start over on those topics.
While I was there I even took some time to polish up the graphics and once again I’m excited about the site! I also added an Adsense ad in the left sidebar to help cover costs only it’s annoying because it keeps showing a Pizza Hut ad, haha, is that really targeting that audience??
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