MaK!MeJ!

If you are or if you are starting on Wordpress just like me, you might want want to read this. Or really you might not because why would you want to read me now?

But anyway, had I known that it would be this T-O-U-G-H, I wouldn’t have moved out from where I was. I wouldn’t have missed some sleep. I wouldn’t have unnecessarily caused my nose to bleed.

But if I had stuck it with Blogger, I wouldn’t have learned WP. Sucker me. But really, I am learning WP at snail’s pace. And boy, wasn’t I a trying hard Missus Nobody who loves to learn, even if it’s just a little thing like knowing what a slug is. A slug, what’s that? There’s nothing like that in Blogger. And my God, I will not lie that it has taken me days to figure out what a slug really is. And I don’t fancy a nosebleed in the process.

When I switched from from Blogger to WP, I really didn’t really know what I’d be getting into. What I knew was WP looks so cool -just look at their comment page. But I didn’t realize I’d get lost. But now, there’s no turning back. Good thing I have a good tech support but I couldn’t always ask for her help for fear of exposing my true dumdumdumbdumb-o self. I don’t want that. Smirk.

I was deciding: Should I import my contents from VERB or not? But nosebleed and all, that was taken cared of, thanks to an article I read somewhere, but which I couldn’t find now so I can give the author some credit.

So everything was new to me. Wordpress is new to me. The codes. The plugins (and I have some that are not functioning at the moment). The version updates (It’s asking now. Ugh!). And then webhosting is new. Everything is nosebleedingly new that I am an ever suki to online help for more of nosebleed-causing readings. I am making things from scratch. I am grappling. And this makes me want to call Houston (a.k.a dear husband) for help everytime.

Even justifying my paragraphs –which I’m twitsy, cutesy, bitsy OCD about - is causing me a headache. And a nosebleed. I really didn’t have this prob with Blogger. Why do I need to Alt-Shift-V just so I can see the hidden buttons? (Have I corrected my very first post already?)

Few days ago, I was reading about permalinks- actually it’s prettifying permalinks. Nosebleeding and all, I was arguing with myself with this need. Because truth of the matter is, I.wanted.to.be.pretty. God, I wanted to be pretty. Definitely. And I.make.every.effort.to.be.pretty but worrying about permalinks is NOT.making.me.pretty. A bleeding is nose is so not pwetty at all. So help me, but I had to ask online nosebleeding help again.

So it was during one of my searches that I stumbled upon this site. Mani K was talking about the very things that can make my nose bleed. But masochist that I am, I keep on reading and reading some more, torturing myself. And he said something about making a site/blog Giiiggle-friendly. But really, why will I make my blog Giii-friendly? Will Giiiggle give me a gift on my birthday? Or will Giii do this old hag a favor by paying me a visit often and commenting on every post I make? He was suggesting about themes, sitemaps, permalink structures, traffic….TRAFFIC! And do I have traffic in here? Or in here? It seems that the traffic I know is what I experience everyday when I go to work! That’s traffic. But of course, he’s talking about site traffic which I may lack here or here.

And then what about a sitemap? Goodness, I just wanted to blog, to write. Why do I need a sitemap? Am I going anywhere? Sitemeter, I have. But sitemaps? I haven’t heard of that. I was imagining all sorts of road in a sitemap – perhaps streets leading from CDO to Manila to Cambodia to Germany – only to find out that there are really no roads or streets in a sitemap! (Thanks to Dagondesign and Arne Brachhold.)

Ahhh when did blogging become so complicated? Maybe you’d argue with that. But I am just saying that it gets to be complicated, when someone becomes too impatient to make the big move, to self host and all without first looking at what she’s jumping into. Planning, I really should do more. Patience, I do not have I should work on that too. So pray for me and pass me some water and aspirin, puhlease. And don’t forget some wet tissue for my nosebleed.

But there’s this advice from SEOblog that I followed. Could even be a couple. And yes, after some nosebleeding sessions online. To find out what these are, dig through the site. Somewhere in the middle of all these headache and nosebleed causing SEO talks, you might just pick up a thing or two.

BTW, this is NOT a paid post. I wish it were. ;-)