Continuing in my quest to own all my data and systems, I want to figure out how to take back control of my blog.

Right now it is a WordPress site hosted at Dreamhost. Been working great for years. However, I don't really like that all the posts are a WP database in a proprietary (though published) format.

My ideal blogging system:

• all data stored in text files, preferably Markdown
• allows multiple authors
• single button/step publishing
• can write blog on all devices
• some templates to...

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Like I said, I got all my past post extracted and into Markdown and all archived in Dropbox so I am good that way. Little hitch with posting; because MarsEdit uses the old API to add posts, every post is missing it's categories in my archive. To fix I have to save every post twice. Not ideal but not terrible. To solve this I will either have to find another way to write in Markdown and have that posted automatically or wait until the developer updates MarsEdit to use the correct APIs....

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Re: http://thedalzells.org/2012/11/making-my-data-movable/ When we last saw our intrepid explorer, he was looking for blogging nirvana…writing in Markdown and every post backed up automatically. We are happy to report that after much hair pulling and cursing, he has achieved his lofty goals! Every post is created in Markdown in MarsEdit. He had to install a Wordpress Markdown plugin and then write his own plugin to copy each post into his Dropbox folder, but he got the job down. He...

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I decided that my previous blog software was too hard for me to manage, so I switch to Wordpress and chose a very basic theme. I will be adding all the old posts back if I can, as well as resurrecting all of our photos, eventually.

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