So I’ve made a (WordPress) blog subdomain for my personal site (Pixietails Club) and I’ve installed @alisx’ JournalPress plugin to connect it to my Dreamwidth account. I should now be able to post entries on my personal URL which’ll crosspost automatically to my DW account, including friends-only posts! Yay!

The reason I wanted to do this is partly because I’d like greater control over my data, and it’s easier to do that when it’s on your own webspace. Obviously I really like Dreamwidth for the community aspect, so I’d like to keep posting there (here) and this seemed like a good solution.

Other positives: I find it much easier to write and format posts in WordPress (maybe just because I’ve been using it for like 15 years idk); I can make drafts and save them for later a little easier; I can scooch myself a little more into the small web/indie web space and use my blog domain for webmentions and other fun stuff; and I can upload/host my own photos without worrying about overloading the DW storage.

The only downside is I can’t figure out what to do for access-locked posts on the WordPress side of things. I think I’d have to make a membership…thing? And that would involve handling people’s data which is a whole other kettle of fish I don’t want to deal with.

So for now access-locked posts will only be available for reading on my Dreamwidth account (and then only if you’re on the list, obviously).

Next problem is figuring out how to import all my old posts over to my blog URL…I should be able to do it with this tool but I can’t figure out how to get the XML import running. 😔