This is probably my final blog posting using the WordPress software, and I hope to pick up posting on Infomotions’ Musings.

WordPress is a significant piece of software, and while its functionality is undeniable, maintaining the software in a constant process. It has become too expensive for me.

Moreover over, blog software, such as WordPress, was suppose to enable two additional types of functionality that have not really come to fruition. The first is/was syndication. Blog software was expected to support things like RSS feeds. While blog software does support RSS, people to not seem to create/maintain lists of blogs and RSS feeds for reading. The idea of RSS has not come to fruition in the expected way. Similarly, blog were expected to support commenting in the form of academic dialog, but that has not really come to fruition either; blog comments are usually terse and do not really foster discussion.

For these reasons, I am foregoing WordPress, and I hope to return to use the of my personal TEI publishing process. I feel as if my personal process will be more long-lasting.

In order to make this transition, I have used a WordPress plug-in called Simply Static. Install the software, play with the settings, create a static site, review results, and repeat if necessary. The software seems to work pretty well. Also, paying the roll of librarian, I have made an effort classify my blog postings while diminishing the number of items in the “miscellaneous” category.

By converting my blog to a static site and removing WordPress from my site, I feel as if I am making the Infomotions web presence simpler and easier to maintain. Sure, I am loosing some functionality, but that loss is smaller than the amount of time, effort, and worry I incur by running software I know too little about.