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Home » New Digs – When I moved to WordPress

New Digs – When I moved to WordPress

September 7, 2010 by Sarah / Maison Cupcake

Welcome to Maison Cupcake’s new home over at WordPress. We’ve exchanged contracts, completed and the removal men have gone home. The new site has been up a couple of days but I was away on a jolly to Dublin at the weekend and it’s only now I have chance to unpack the last few boxes and rearrange stuff the way I like it.

It might take a while to settle in and fiddle with plug-ins and double check RSS feeds are working etc. Ted is now back at pre-school so things should be getting back to normal round here.

So what’s new?

  • Recipe posts from now on will include shaded area to make the recipe text stand out more clearly
  • Attractive recipe sheets in PDF so you can print just the bit you need in the kitchen
  • Proper tags and categorisation so it’s easy to find stuff
  • Web optimised images sized to fit the template properly so it looks nice and doesn’t take ages to load pages
  • Inclusion in the detailed A-Z recipe index (under construction).
  • and a few more tricks too once I’ve learned them – can someone please write “Plug-ins for Dummies”?

A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to tag and categorise posts that have been imported from the old site at Blogger i.e. those before August 2010.

You may notice with posts created on Blogger, irregularities with internal links, sizing of pictures and line spacing. I had hoped to re-edit all the old posts before going live with the new site but have since decided that that way madness lies therefore we will start afresh with beautiful layouts on the new posts and I’ll probably just edit the old ones a few at a time starting with the most popular. I have a few draft posts from Blogger which may still get published on the new site which have the old size photos.  I am still editing the broken internal links. Those ones in posts published since April 2010 should be ok but if you spot any in posts more recent than this please let me know.

If you come across something that looks really peculiar, please email me at sarah AT maisoncupcake DOT com to let me know!

Thanks!

Sarah

PS: The picture above looks rather like my parents’ living room circa 1975. It is a display from London’s Geffrye Museum although my father still lives with one of these old green telephones (original, not retro refit) and a frighteningly similar rug.

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Comments

  1. Daily Spud says

    September 7, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Hope you’ll be very happy in your new home!

  2. Asha@FSK says

    September 7, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    Congrats on the new digs, Sarah! The place looks great!!!

  3. BethieofVA says

    September 7, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    Awesome, love the look!!!

  4. Sarah says

    September 8, 2010 at 12:15 am

    Very nice to have you back and thanks for inviting us to the housewarming; it looks like all the work on this has paid dividends! I love the notion of printable recipes. I haven’t seen that on other blogs and it will make life easier. I will keep an eye out for unruly Blogger posts.

  5. tiina { sparkling ink } says

    September 8, 2010 at 8:03 am

    Congrats on the new blog home! Everything looks wonderful!

  6. Marisa says

    September 8, 2010 at 8:08 am

    The new place looks great! The changes sound nice & userfriendly too – always a bonus. 🙂

  7. Aussie Foodie says

    September 8, 2010 at 8:21 am

    Congrats on the move hon. Should I take my shoes off before I curl up on the sofa? Could really go a martini – shaken not stirred…

  8. Meeta says

    September 8, 2010 at 8:22 am

    congrats Sarah! you’ve kept us all in suspense and it’s good to see you in your new home. a fine one i must say. now get cooking!!

  9. Colleen says

    September 8, 2010 at 8:30 am

    This looks wonderful. I still have so much to do with mine! When you understand plug-ins please share with me too haha! xx

  10. Nora says

    September 8, 2010 at 9:00 am

    Wow, this new site looks amazing, Sarah! And the new features sound great – particularly the recipe PDFs and the A-Z index. I’m so impressed by your energy and creativity!

  11. nisha says

    September 8, 2010 at 11:10 am

    Nice to have u back..now some kick ass recipes please:)

  12. nisha says

    September 8, 2010 at 11:11 am

    welcome back…now for some kick ass recipes 🙂

  13. Sarah says

    September 8, 2010 at 11:52 am

    Thanks everyone! I’m still working out how to reply to people individually but I’ll get there in the end!

  14. Hilary says

    September 8, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    Finally 😉 I’ve been waiting to see the new design – and I love it!

  15. Su-yin says

    September 8, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    For a moment there I was thinking – wow, Sarah’s tv is really retro! 😛
    Congrats on the wp site going live, you must be so relieved! Looking forward to having you posting again.

    • Sarah says

      September 9, 2010 at 11:51 am

      Ha ha, I know my husband would love a tv like that but he’s too attached to his blue ray player!!

  16. KB says

    September 9, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    Welcome home!

    • Sarah says

      September 9, 2010 at 9:07 pm

      Thank you! I’m so pleased to see you here!

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