I’ve been wanting to set up a software-development blog for some time. And for some time I’ve been wrestling with the pains of managing multiple WordPress blogs. Back in the day, when I had just my writing blog and a LiveJournal, it wasn’t such a big deal. Since then, I’ve retired the LiveJournal—sorry, LJ friends—and have set up a number of other WordPress sites, for different niches in which I write. In particular, I have a personal blog, a political blog (because I decided I should not pollute my personal blog with political posts), and now a software-development blog (which you are currently reading).

When I spun off the political blog, I got a taste of what it meant to migrate posts from one WordPress instance to another. And my experience with this SD blog was ten times worse, because there were 10 times as many posts involved.

The short version of the story: WordPress is broken, and it will always be broken.

The long version of the story… is a little more of an acerbic joke.