Lessons Learned

 should have known from how stressful the transfer over to my own self hosted WordPress blog was, that this wasn’t going to work. I should have known that, it was a terrible idea, and that I would regret it. I could feel it, but I squashed down that little voice inside my head that told me it was a mistake and went on ahead because I was convinced that it would all work out for the best. Of course, I had been down this road before hadn’t I?

I had had a self hosted WordPress blog back in 2008, the first time I’d ever used Cult of Racewood. At the time the brand was nothing like it is now, I had no followers whatsoever and in the entire year I had the blog I don’t think I ever gained even one, part of the reason I even thought I should try again was the simple fact that I had gained quite a few loyal followers, and WordPress had created something called Jetpack which supposedly transferred your followers, but which apparently didn’t do enough, as I quickly realized almost no one was seeing my posts anymore. My likes and comments had dropped through the floor and the only thing that had come close to salvaging it was sharing my posts back on this blog anyway. Now I was blogging in two separate places in the desperate hope that just one of them would reach my followers, whom I so desperately missed hearing from.

April has been a horribly stressful month for about a million different reasons, not the least of which have been this blog. But, at least 2 out of 3 of the things that have been driving me mad are fixed and soon this blog will be too.

At least it only took me a month and six dollars to learn this lesson, it could have been far worse.

PS: I’m glad to be home.