For those of you that have been planning to move your blog but weren’t sure how to go about it, check out this 20-point checkliist at Performancing. While it is focused on WordPress, much of it applies to nearly any type of blog move.

In this case, the move was both from one host to another and from WordPress 1.5.2 to 2.2. The only really worrisome part of the move is porting the old database tables to the new ones. If you’re not comfortable with your mySqlAdmin (or similar) database control panel, I suggest you get someone to do this for you. Because WP 1.5.2 and 2.2 have slightly different database structures, this is a manual port, done table by table. This is the main place you could have problems afterwards.

There’ll be more of these “how to move your blog” posts at Performancing, with the intent to cover different scenarios. The big one coming up is for moving from Typepad to WordPress. There’ll be a couple of free plugins as part of that feature.