I remember when I discovered WordPress around 2004-2005. As a budding website developer I was still really “green” when it came to technologies such as PHP and SQL. I was working for a “one stop IT shop” at the time and was in constant search of how to do things better, faster and cheaper.
My research uncovered several wonderful canned CMS/Blogging solutions such as Mambo (which is now Joomla), Drupal and of course, WordPress. Ultimately, I decided WordPress appeared to be the easiest to code for and skin, had the best community support with a seemingly multitude of plugins - I was totally sold and excited to work with it.
Fast forward to 2009. My blog at www.kylejackson.net was (and still is) completely devoid of updates. I did pretty well for awhile, even going as far as to monitor basic metrics such as hits, exits, pagerank, etc. But over time, I lost my passion for blogging due to problems like: WordPress updates becoming a pain in the ass. Plugins breaking. Fixing nightmarish code issues. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. I pretty much just left it to rot while I sat on my domain.
It is only now that I’ve found a new home on tumblr - where I no longer have to worry about updates, plugins, or other shit that I just don’t have time for and don’t care to fix every time there’s an upgrade - that I’ve regained the same enthusiasm for blogging that I had some time ago.
The simplicity of tumblr’s interface makes is so much easier for me to focus on content - which is really what matters most in today’s world. I’m actually getting to the point where I’m ready to just pull the plug on the old www.kylejackson.net and forward that mofo on to tumblr.
Yes, I’ll lose pagerank. Yes, I’ll have wasted a few years worth of backlinking and SEO and blah blah blah. But I will have what was missing for the last few years: passion.
So with that I’m pleased to say: Fuck my old blog. I’m moving to Tumblr. =D
