In the process, I’ve also decided to switch to WordPress, since it has all the blog-related stuff I need, and not the extra weight of a lot of features I rarely use. Hopefully it will be easier to maintain sites for a few of my friends as well. I found upgrading a multi-site Drupal installation a tedious process. Dreamhost has a neat one-click managed install of WordPress, where they automatically maintain and upgrade your WordPress installation for you, if you can live without the ability to install custom plugins and themes. I’ve done a custom install, ’cause I wanted some plugins for Flickr integration, but it will make offering my friends and family a basic WordPress installation as simple as clicking a button.

Moving day is usually also a good time to clean out your closet, and there are a couple of things that I’ve let go when moving my site. First of all, I’ve shut down the photo galleries, since I hadn’t put anything in them for years, and I felt they were not relevant to what I do now. These days I use Flickr to expose photos to the world, and Facebook for friends. I’ve also not transferred a lot of posts from 2007 and earlier, and I’ve unfortunately not yet found a way to migrate comments from the old posts.