Philobiblon

Yes, the move is now finally complete (even if all of the rough edges haven’t yet been smoothed off), and this is the new site, where all new posting will occur.

There were the usual hiccups and odd happenings getting to this point. The process of importing content from Blogger to WordPress is theoretically extraordinarily simple – little more than pressing a button, but for reasons I am utterly unable to explain, the first two times I did it, only posts from 2004 were imported. The third time that I did exactly the same thing – more in exasperation than hope – all of the posts arrived. And they say computers are logical.

There are still some issues to be ironed out here; if anyone can tell me why as it is loading the righthand sidebar is the right width (180), but it then suddenly pops out much wider, I would be extremely grateful! UPDATE: it was one of the blogring codes that was causing the problem. I’ve just cut several of them out, but will try to work out a final solution eventually.

If anything else about the site really annoys you – or you’ve got some helpful suggestions – please leave them on this or any other post. (I’m also looking for recommendations for a WordPress plug-in for preventing spam comments, if anyone has a recommendation.)

One of the advantages of this move has been the addition of categories to the site. You can now look at all of the Femmes Fatales in a row just by clicking on that category in the right-hand sidebar. I’m gradually going to go back to recategorise other posts – so you will for example be able to look at just the feminism posts, or just those relating to early modern history. (Although I haven’t got very far back on those yet.)

Enjoy!