Why move from WordPress to Ghost? A few reasons, but from a “how it compares with WordPress” perspective, the baked-in newsletter functionality. While it’s possible to “bolt on” email newsletters to a WordPress site, it’s far from seamless, and I wanted to give Ghost an honest try, considering the strides they’re making in open source blogging. I’ve also changed URLs to the more SEO-friendly veronicaexplains.net. Using a dot net instead of a dot sh will help with email deliverability as well. Lastly, Ghost has been pioneering new ActivityPub integrations, and I’m working on using Mastodon less and less. Relying on Ghost for those sorts of “ActivityPub blasts” is something I’m keen on trying. So what happens to vkc.sh? I will be winding down this WordPress install, and over the next few weeks I plan to start replacing blog posts with redirects to their counterparts over on the new site. I’ll likely update the posts over there as well, for instances where stuff/instructions have…
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