My old host was getting slower and slower. It could take up to ten seconds to get any response, so it was rather annoying. But I got an offer with this new server, which seems much speedier. :) Along with it I’m changing the domain to dusan.fora.si (New blog URL is dusan.fora.si/blog). I’m making a redirect from my old domain as soon as I finish this post, so visiting dusan.livecd.net should bring you here as well. If everything goes as planned, DNS records should also get updated within a few days.

While at it, I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.3. Can’t see much difference, except for the new “tags” input field while writing this post. I still have to figure out how this differs from categories, though.

And for those wondering, how one moves a blog to a new domain, here are the steps I took:

1. Get a new host & a new domain, have your php and mysql set up.
2. Download WordPress and follow the simple installation process.
3. At this point you could just import the whole database, but I took a different approach. Open the administration pages of your old blog. Click Manage -> Export and export your blog into a file. Now in your new installation, go to Manage -> Import to import this file. I selected to move all my posts to the newly created admin user.
4. Now go to users to edit the admin user.
5. Delete the demo post (Manage -> Posts) and the default about page (Manage -> Pages). If you get a “No permission” error, try the AJAX Referer Fix plugin.
6. While in administration, go to options and personalize them.
7. Use the Search and Replace plugin to replace all instances of the old domain with the new one. This will fix any links to uploaded files.
8. Make the wp-content/uploads directory writable to the web server and copy the contents of the folder from the old server.
9. Move your theme to wp-content/themes directory and enable it in administration pages (Presentation -> Themes).
10. See if everything works.
11. Make sure to redirect to the new domain correctly. Fix the DNS records, or use your web server’s redirect functions. How to redirect visitors to a new page? - See the “To Move an entire site” part.

It’s probably obvious from the URL, but I’m kindly hosted by Fora d.o.o.. Thank you Fora! :)