Did you miss me?

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I mean, did you miss my website? Access was denied (even to me, can you imagine?) for most of Saturday, all of Sunday, and most of Monday. It’s all straightened out now, at least until the end of April.

But I thought I’d take this opportunity to let you know that big changes are coming. Shortly after I got done with my “minor” web redesign (a big deal to me), my webhost let me know that I really, really, really needed to either upgrade Movable Type or change publishing platforms. (MT is what I use to publish this blog.) According to this pricing structure, I need to cough up 70 bucks for the privilege of using MT3. So I’m switching to WordPress.

There are a lot of exciting features in WordPress, but there are also several learning curves involved. Consequently you are not going to see much writing from me for a while, even though I have so many ideas banging around in my head I’d like to share. And even when I’m done, it’s going to look way different, because I don’t (or won’t, because gardening season is imminent) have time to make it look like it does now. Sigh. All that tweaking and hair-pulling down the drain.

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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bill March 30, 2005, 9:00 am

I will follow your progress.

I need to do this too, as I am on an older MT version. I installed WordPress but then I balked at having to do all the work to make it look the way I wanted. So many things to do that are more fun.

Keith March 29, 2005, 9:44 pm

Steph is right; you will LOVE Wordpress. You will especially love never having to rebuild your site again.

Steph March 29, 2005, 11:54 am

I’ve done MT and now have WP. WP has far less headaches, once you’ve acclimated you will love it.