Experiment with Wordpress is over

 I asked people reading this blog to try the new Wordpress interface and some of you did.

The interface is nice, I even found out after some experimenting how to clean it up by getting rid of irrelevant graphics.

But if you want to use Wordpress for a blog, either start there or convert over before you have put up more than 100 posts.

Because the Wordpress import app doesn't work the way you want.

You can import all your posts to have Wordpress addressees. Your images will follow.

But if you split your posts onto pages like I did, so your readers could bookmark just the pages for later reference, Wordpress can't help you.

Your index pages will get Wordpress addresses.

The posts that they link to will still have addresses on your old site.

You will have to re-create every link on those pages to point to the Wordpress address of the post.

With nearly 1200 posts, I wasn't willing to go through that pain. I brought it to the attention of Wordpress support;  They probably won't do anything about it, unless they put it in their highest-priced site option.

So it was worth the experiment but Wordpress isn't the place to put a long-term blog that you move from a previous host.